I hate to say it, but this whole U.S. invasion of Iraq thing (I wish they'd stop calling it a war) is a pretty strong scenario in support of a Cold War. But who knows, maybe this is ushering in a new age where the CIA stops covert operations controlling or influencing internal politics of other countries for the beneift of the U.S. Maybe the U.S. military will roam the world as a global police force removing dictators and evil military juntas. After Saddam's gone, let's go for North Korea ("Who's chillin'?", "It's Kim Jong Illin'" - from MadTV) and get the people fed there, then we can oust the Burmese military junta that spends 40% of its budget on its military, used exclusively against its own people, then a sweep of South and Central American countries, the plights of which may have been sourced in U.S. interference, and then finally, let's clean up Africa for god's sake. Not botched Somalia jobs. We should go all out and "do an Iraq" against all repressive regimes. As long as the precedent is set, who couldn't get behind that plan?

Remember the good ol' days when we worried about nuclear war?

On the news yesterday, some pro-war woman on the street talked about how scary Saddam Hussein was and how we need to get rid of him because the thought of Hussein bombing us with nuclear weapons is really scary. Speechless. Everyone's entitled to an opinion. I just wish they weren't entitled to stupidity.

Q: So do you feel personally threatened by Saddam Hussein?
A: Why yes, at any moment he can drop a nuclear bomb on us.
Q: What makes you think Saddam Hussein has nuclear weapons?
A: That's why the inspectors are there, isn't it? And since Iraq and North Korea are part of the Axis of Evil, and North Korea has nuclear weapons, I'm sure they share.
Q: And how would Saddam Hussein deliver a nuclear weapon against the U.S. when Iraq is not allowed to have and is currently destroying missiles that travel farther than 150 kilometers?
A: How far is a kilometer?
Q: The missiles cannot fly more than about 80 miles beyond Iraq's borders.
A: Oh, um, well if he has missiles that can fly farther than that now, then maybe he's hiding missiles that can go farther than that. And I'm sure in conjunction with the Al-Qaeda network, he can manage to sneak nuclear weapons into the U.S.

Hm, OK, well I've investigated that line of inquiry and find it viable. But suddenly, the "Jay Walk" segment on the Leno show is not so funny.