Jon Stewart got back to his roots on Tuesday night, embarking on a 10-minute rant against the seemingly never-ending American intervention in Iraq, or as he called it, our “cluster-quagmire-catastroph-fuck.”
Asking his audience to join him in the chant, “learning curves are for pussies,” the host of “The Daily Show” responded to conservative critics blaming the rise of the Islamic State on President Obama.
“We spent the 80s giving Saddam Hussein’s Baathists weapons to fight against the Iranians; the 90s helping Kuwait fight against Saddam’s Baathists that we armed; the 2000s heading a coalition to destroy Saddam’s Baathists, and the 2010s fighting against those very same unemployed Baathists now going by the name ISIS that we originally originally armed in the 80s to fight Iran,” he said breathlessly.
“But to really ensure we have not skated even a micrometer up the learning curve, guess who our new designated good guy, with a gun, in the region is?” he asked.
You’ll never guess.
Watch the clip:
Very well done Mr. Stewart. America has both short and long term amnesia.
Constant war equals constant profit for the Military Industrial Fear Complex.
It’s fun watching Stewart do this stuff. Sad that it won’t make any difference.
The reason all our attempted “solutions” fail is because there is no solution. And yet, we feel compelled to micromanage other country’s governments and lives. Amazing.
What’s the ratio of Ivy League degrees to the region’s dead?
Jon is in rare form. He will be sorely missed! Someone has very, very big shoes to fill.