BAA humbug!

Published: August 9, 2007, 4:15 am

Tags: united kingdom, september 11th, airports, muslim, plane stupid, baa, consumerism, america, politics, christianity, terrorism, comedy, george w bush, youtube, environment

We should invade North Korea.' Why Korea? They're trouble.' Why are they trouble? Their attitude.' That's the voice of the American man on the street, apparently. I'm quoting an old video still doing the rounds on YouTube and office emails, entitled Who should the US invade next? It features an Australian reporter' supposedly doing a vox-pop survey of ordinary people's opinions as to who George Dubya's next target should be. Some other answers: Iran' Why Iran? I think there's a revolution happening there soon,' and Italy' no explanation given. It's funny, though not as funny as when the interviewer brings out a facetious map and asks people to pinpoint their chosen targets. Maps with North Korea, Iran and Iraq all printed on the continent of Australia elicit no cries of it's not over there!' from people, and the lesson we take away is that Americans, despite their impact on it, are ignorant about the rest of the world. For

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