But in this case, it's "eat, drink, and be merry because you're making sure somebody else is doing the dying."
The irony is that if the residents of Washington, D.C. were suffering one tenth of what the residents of Belgrade are enduring, Clinton would have waved the white flag months ago.
It's easy to dish it out and keep going to $5,000 a plate fundraising dinners. Just make sure you never think that there are ordinary human beings at the end of those bombs we so blithely drop.
Eat, drink, and be merry, people. It's only Serbian sons and wives and mothers who are dying (along with the occasional Chinese journalist), and we know they don't matter to anybody. |
