Oh big deal! Don’t act so surprised.

So we are going to send more troops into Afghanistan. There is no other way, karma-wise. It’s our national Lieutenant Dan fate. We think we have this honorable destiny to fulfill (droning comparatively unarmed countries into some vague idea of submission in order to achieve something TBA later) when all we’re really doing is getting our psychic legs amputated and our national treasury tapped out.

We’re an empire. That’s what empires do. Noblesse oblige -- even if you're an unemployed roofer living in a ramshackle trailer manufactured home with an adult Down syndrome child afflicted with a badly abscessed tooth. Remember: You and your adult Down syndrome child are God's chosen citizens. You are AMERICAN.