Back in the late 1970s, Steve Martin did a comedy routine in which he reminded the audience that we now live on a different planet.

"Don't you remember?" he'd ask, describing some natural disaster in the recent past that had required the evacuation of all humanity to a more hospitable world. The punch line was something like, "And remember how the government decided it just wasn't going to tell any of the really stupid people.... " And he'd pause, and then say, "Uh oh."

Anyone think we're facing the same kind of blissful ignorance of recent history and facts wrt Iraq and Al Queda? For the love of G-d, man why can't we attack Saudi Arabia? Don't they have plenty of oil?