Get Your Ya Ya's Out

The post got me thinking. I started to think about was Get Smart and Kaos. It feels a bit like we have become Maxwell Smart and Al Queda is like Kaos, the faceless evil organization we are constantly racing against to stop plots to blow up the world. I wonder just how serious business it really is, and how much of it is like a sitcom.

9/11 notwithstanding, Al Queda is really a bunch of doofs, right? I mean they would love to cause harm all over the Western world, and they need to be considered a threat because of that and the fact that they were able to pull off 9/11, but we get excited about unmanned plane assassinating guys hiding in primitive conditions in a remote part of the world. I'm not sure how much we end up overstating the importance of these kinds of kills. It probably didn't stop an imminent threat to the U.S., Right? But on the flip side, clearly if this guy could have, he would have done nasty things to the U.S.

But with all the rah rah (not ya ya) sentiment with each of these strikes, I always wonder, how many people had any clue who this guy was until they announced the drone strike?

From our perspective, it is getting 1984ish, in that we now have a perma-enemy that the government can use to keep our eye focused on blood lust, instead of other things.