One Man's Urine is Another Man's Blasphemy, Just as One Man's Bow is Another Man's Treason

Soldiers urinated on dead Taliban.  Inasmuch as I probably would have done the very same to someone shooting at me, consider the uproar in talk radio when the President appeared to bow before Hu Jintao - it was conversation fodder for weeks, and mentioned for months that extended into years. And that was our reaction to a bow. Imagine the reaction the Mideast could have from a urination.


I’m something of a liberal of late.
It came from too much Rush, or Hannity,
The loss, or gain, of some insanity
That overtook my long beliefs. The hatred
Democrats may have for Beck, or Beck
May have for some Progressive, or Iran,
Is miniscule when set along the span
Of hatreds that engulf the tribal wreck
That we have called Afghanistan (Iraq
And Turkey, too, and several others more).
Their borders cut the lands they’re living for,
And if the freedom could survive the flak
Of ancient hatred, we would be remiss
If we destroyed momentum with a piss.