Go Stewart!



Quite Anti-Hubristic!

A headline reads "Bush Remembers Victims of Katrina." How exactly does he remember them? Does he remember ignoring everyone who told him the levies would break?

What damnable Hubris for him to go to New Orleans on Katrina's anniversary in faux-humility, when his hubris caused so much pain and suffering to begin with.

It is [NOT] a glorious thing when an employee is genuinely devoted to a company, works extra hours & works harder than the employer, and the employee is completely unappreciated solely because of the employer's hubris.

Soldiers, civilians, and everyone in-between, above, below, etc. could be kidnapped especially when two parties conflict. So, why was Israel surprised that two soldiers got kidnapped? We're not saying that Hezbollah is any way in the right - we're not, we're very very very anti-terror. But it is a bit hubristic to cause a full scale humanitarian crisis from an almost inevitable consequence of extended conflicts.

The degree of hubris is almost unimaginable - evacuees required to pay the military for evacuation from Beirut? Welcome to Democracy - pure capitalistic style.

So, the U.S. is at war(s). The War in Iraq, The War on Drugs, The War on Terror, The War on Civil Liberties (usually known as 'The Patriot Act'), and so on. Regardless of which 'war,' one reefers to, nothing gives the U.S. the right to by-pass the Geneva Conventions and disregard the rights of any detainee. The U.S. Supreme Court already ruled that even detained members of Al Qaeda are afforded said rights. Why then, is there even debate on this issue? War is war, terror is terror, but a detainee is a detainee - regardless of the war or the terror.