[Vision2020] Mother of All Freedom Fries

[Ted Moffett]

John et. al.

Patriotic fried potatoes?  Image and hype galore.  And this no doubt coming 
from the ruling House political party, the Republicans, who often chastise 
those who follow "political correctness."  Changing the name of fried 
potatoes to avoid their harmless association with French cooking strikes me 
as political correctness run amok on an issue no one really cares about: 
what to call fried potatoes.  I doubt if most people really say "french 
fries" when they want to order or discuss "fries."  Next they will label 
French cinema or French literature as anti-freedom cinema or pacifist wimp 
literature.  At least this would be about something significant.  But french 
fries?

A rallying cry for war: "Freedom Fries!"

"Surreal" and "bizarre" is right!

Ted





>From: "John Cronin" <johncronin@moscow.com>
>To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Mother of All Freedom Fries
>Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:40:58 -0800
>
>In Pensacola Florida, the U.S. military today exploded it's new weapon of 
>mass destruction, the MOAB bomb ( Massive Ordinance Air Blast) otherwise 
>known as the Mother of All Bombs. This bomb carries 18,000 pounds of 
>explosives. The message to Iraqi troops is unmistakable. The networks can 
>only hope it hits Bagdad during prime time.
>
>In another development, the House of Representatives today announced that 
>they were changing the names of two items on the House cafeteria menu. 
>French fries will now be called freedom fries and French toast will be 
>known as, you guessed it.... freedom toast. I am pretty certain that France 
>will be devastated by this rebuke. If France goes ahead with a veto in the 
>UN, couldn't we box up the Statue of Liberty and send it back via UPS? What 
>can you personally do? As a result of the House's action, I can report that 
>the half empty bottle of freedom salad dressing in my frig is feeling a 
>little less secure today.
>
>Taken together, our government's behavior today is nothing short of 
>surrreal. In the case of the MOAB test, a provocative move designed to 
>induce psychological terror on the Iraqi people and in the case of France, 
>culinary and economic terror on the unwilling. So far, it's proving to be 
>another bizarre week in U.S. foreign relations.
>
>John
>
>


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