‘Mr. Y’ and the Decline of the American Empire

"While the rest of the "news" media was busy covering the Great Birth Certificate Drama, Rachel Maddow spared her audience yet another hour of having to watch that walking hairpiece make a fool of himself (and us), and instead focused on the real news: a US-trained Afghan pilot had turned on his trainers and killed 9 Americans – the biggest single casualty report since 2005. Not only did Rachel report this story, she also wondered aloud at its implications – the doubtful feasibility of a policy that assumes the Afghans will 'stand up' as we 'stand down' – and wryly noted how the Obama White House is even utilizing the same phraseology we all remember from the Bush years. "