Why not do stupid stuff?

The most popular item on the New Yorker website was a piece of satire by Andy Borowitz.

It’s about President Obama’s much-ridiculed foreign policy motto, “Don’t do stupid stuff”.

Which, Borowitz says, has critics like Senator John McCain “pressuring him to do something stupid without further delay.”

Borowitz makes up a quote for Senator John McCain,
“The President has chosen to waste valuable time thinking.”

Then he makes up a quote for Senator Lindsey Graham,
“The American people are waiting for President Obama to do something stupid, but their patience is wearing thin.”

I decided to double-check – to make sure Borowitz was just joking and that the quotes were in fact, made up, because these days you never know.

Well, it turns out McCain & Graham said nothing of the kind. What they said was ISIS is after us.

“Do they have the capability to hit the homeland?” asked Graham. “I would say, yes.”

ISIS is rich.

“It’s the largest, richest, terrorist organization on Earth,” said McCain.

We can’t afford pay attention to national borders.

“We cannot give them sanctuary just because of the boundary,” said McCain.

You have to eradicate ISIS wherever it is.

“You can’t just contain it, you have to defeat it,” said McCain.

So what they’re saying is, instead of listening to a president who says don’t do stupid stuff, we need to launch a third war in the Middle East.

Presumably, because the last two worked so well.

Like I say, sometimes it’s hard to tell who’s joking.