I PITY THE FOOLS: Much as the neocons of the Bush foreign policy team know what they're doing when it comes to fighting terrorism, they're not unaffected by the mass pop-culture ignorance common to America's political right. Take Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who this week referred to the Iran-backed, Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah as "The A-Team of terrorists."
As anyone who watched '80s TV knows, "The A-Team" kicked ass- shouldn't comparing a group to them be a compliment? Does this make Hezbollah kingpin Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah "Mr. T"? Shouldn't it be "Mr. N"?
If we can't do any better than this in our rhetoric, this could be trouble- what's next, a slam of Osama Bin Laden as "terror's knight rider"? Maybe that's why we haven't found him yet, 'cause he escaped Afghanistan in his talking car...