Another ‘War’ On This Or That
We’ve had Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, one of those well-meaning Herculean efforts from the liberals that cost who knows what? We are, for all practical purposes, as poor as we were in 1964, when our president declared that war.
And there is the continuation of Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs, a strange battle that imprisons the poor and hasn’t lessened our thirst for illegal drugs an iota. An iota is a very small amount. Come to think of it, the miniscule drop in the poverty rate may be due to jailing so many of the poor.
We’re excellent at declaring wars on this and that social issue and spectacularly unsuccessful when it comes to the shooting kind. But that’s another issue.
I was amazed to read just yesterday that you needn’t travel to the Middle East to find a War on Christians. Rick Scarborough, a large-caliber televangelist guy (what other kind is there?) hosted the initial declaration of this particular war. Turns out that the Situation Room in his reenactment of Onward Christian…