Ramping Up Operations

Jews wait for the Lord,
Protestants sing hymns to him,
Catholics say mass and eat him
--Love in the Ruins, Walker Percy

I know you're all a little down
because Lindsay Lohan is in jail.
But look at it this way:
Our streets are once again safe
--Late Show with David Letterman
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82nd Airborne Sgt. Chad Stewart, from Detroit -- one of America's Guards of Honor -- stops a boy and his burro at a checkpoint (U.S. Ramps up Afghan Operation.) Don't that just say it all?

Detroit -- once-proud Motor City -- lies in ruins, while one of its sons spends his days checking burros halfway around the world. Drones, satellite signal intelligence, blast-resistant vehicles, sophisticated communications, and it boils down to a burro at a checkpoint. If one believes the Bible, then our soldiers are not that far removed from the Roman legionnaires or King Herod's soldiers, who faced another boy on a burro.

Burro checkpoints ... it sure makes me sleep more soundly knowing that threat has been neutralized.