And Now You Know the Rest of the Story... WHAT???

Loyal reader RB sends us this story from Paul Harvey's news and comment today. The link can probably be found at his website. Sorry, my meager web skills prevent me from using an actual link to the audio. But RB took the time to transcribe the key portion, which starts at 2:20 on the tape...

Its been a noisy, bloody, ugly overnight in Baghdad. Coordinated car bombings one after another after another; one in the crowded central shopping district. Maybe half a hundred dead. I don’t know how many dying. It’s Sunni Arabs killing Shiite Arabs and as many of us as possible. Sunni Muslims are dominating Iraq for decades under Saddam Hussein convinced that they can outlast us now. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld goes up to the Hill this morning to update an anxious Congress.

For what its worth, after the attack on Pearl Harbor Winston Churchill told the American people “we didn’t come this far because we are made of sugar candy.” And that reminder was taken seriously. We proceeded to develop and deliver the time bomb, The Bomb. Even though roughly 150,000 men, women, and children perished in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with a single blow World War II was over. Following New York’s September 11 Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill was not here to remind us that we didn’t come this far because we are made of sugar candy. So, we mustered our humanity. We gave old pals a pass. Even though men and women of Saudi Arabia were largely responsible for the devastation of New York and Pennsylvania and our Pentagon, we called Saudi Arabians our partners against terrorism. And we sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq. Kept our best weapons in our silos. Even now we stand there dying, daring to do nothing decisive because we declared ourselves to be better than our terrorist enemies. More moral. More civilized. Our image is at stake, we insist. But we didn’t come this far because we are made of sugar candy.

Once upon a time we elbowed our way onto and across this continent by giving small pox infected blankets to native Americans. That was biological warfare. And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever. And we grew prosperous. And yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves. So it goes with most great nation-states, which, feeling guilty about their savage pasts, eventually civilize themselves out of business. And wind up invaded and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry, up-and-coming who are not made of sugar candy.

Um, I'm not sure what he's saying. This is random gibberish at times, sort of like Grandpa Simpson, and trying to get to a point but not quite getting there, sort of like John Kerry. Frankly, it's a little scary, because thoughts of dropping a nuke should be scary.

Of course, I'd hope they'd scare the other side enough that they'd get it through their thick skulls that ramming planes into buildings and trying bio-warfare may lead to us, someday, losing the patience of civilized people.

In the meantime, I think someone needs to check Paul's medication.