The Daily Show On "America To The Rescue" genre: Just Jihad & Polispeak & Tongue-In-Cheek
Jon Stewart gives viewers the rundown on the role the United States has played in arming the combatants in the Middle East and beyond...with billions of dollars worth of weaponry.
As he details the numerous occasions the U.S. has "come to the rescue", the viewer quickly realizes that we've played a game of musical chairs with the nations of the region...sometimes a country is our pal and they get billions of dollars...sometime later they aren't our pal so we give their enemies billions of dollars.
Once Stewart finishes pointing out the utter schizophrenia that has typified our foreign policy, he rhetorically asks where the money is for our infrastructure or for rebuilding hurricane ravaged cities...at which point no one comes to the rescue and the screen goes silent.
Sometime comedy tells a twisted tale...funny as it may be...tragic all the same.
Tagged as: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Jon Stewart, Middle East, The Daily Show
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