How Very Uncivil

I could hardly believe my eyes -- in fact, I still can't. Not content with sending thousands more troops over to Afghanistan to act as cannon fodder for the fedayeen, now we're going to mount a civilian "surge" consisting of -- I kid you not -- "economic and government aides"? This is what General McChrystal says -- and, after all, we have to assume he has a McChrystal Ball. But imagine -- sending, basically, U.S. government employees over to Afghanistan in an effort to win "hearts and minds"? Wait until they get a load of our lazy, fat-assed government "workers"; what's that going to tell them about the benefits of "democracy"? And look at where these "surgers" are going to come from -- the State Department, known as a sheltered workshop for the dull-witted sons of the rich and the elite -- and the Department of Agriculture, which would have won the lifetime achievement award for worthlessness if it had not been for HUD. So... these people, who are already virtually guaranteed to be parasites, are going to be attached to units of our already-overburdened troops. And all in the name of "rebuilding Afghanistan's shattered economy" -- to which I ask, well who shattered it anyway? It's as if some maniac went around cutting people's arms off, then offered to provide them with artificial limbs. No really, the Afghan people should right away start setting out traps for these people, then boil down their fat to make something truly useful -- like fuel for heating and lighting. The "ugly American" just keeps getting uglier...