Sunday, May 02, 2004

So, this one time I was in Thailand and I just happened to be living in a country that was going to war with another country, despite the recommendations of the United Nations. I found myself at a table, mildly discussing politics with Europeans, and yes, they were dirty, unshaven, and had a mild odor to them. They would pass as hippies where I was from, except for this "I am better than you" aura that they emanate. It's as if they believe the laws of physics turn in on themselves in their armpits or something. "Yeah, if you could launch a space craft out of my armpit, it would easily surpass the speed of light, and I can speak your language sexier than you can."

There was a television in the courtyard establishment, and the world news was the big daytime broadcast... hence, the politics talk. At night, you couldn't go anywhere without seeing soccer, or "football" as the unkempt hoards referred to it, on every television set. Which, was alright... but, I am digressing from the story.

Here's the short version:

Euro dude: Your country is going to war. They are cowboys, it is stupid. There are no weapons of mass destruction, you are just interested in oil. You care nothing for actually helping the people of Iraq.

Me: Hey, that's our President, I don't agree with anything he's done in office, and I didn't vote for him.

Euro dude: From what I understand, most of the people in your country didn't.

I may have not agreed with our President, and thought he was an idiot. In fact, may nothing, I thought he was a tool and was bummed he was in office making stupid decisions and reflecting badly on me. However, it wasn't until he gave a stinky Euro dude in Thailand the upper hand on me that I truly began to despise him.

The moral of this story is that it's all fun and games as long as other people far away that look different are dying, but when Euro's get the upper hand on me during my vacation, it's not fun and it's not games.

It was also interesting to be that close to North Korea while they announced that they had a nuclear missile they could launch... and all the time I'm thinking of how we're taking care of the threat that is Iraq... we never caught Osama and the forty thieves and everyone that signed up post 9/11 to hunt down this a-hole is off dying in Iraq for what? So that Euros can make an ass out of me.

Damn.