The Most Important Sound Bite of the Twenty-First Century

Just as the most important person of the twentieth century, Karl Marx, lived in the previous century, the words that defined the twenty-first century were spoken in the twentieth.

Here Bill Clinton's Sectretary of State Madeleine Albright tells the world that the death of half a million Iraqi women and children is "worth it" to the interests of US citizens.

I don't remember anyone telling me in the mid-1990s that Saddam would force my wife and daughters to wear burqas, but apparently preventing him from doing so was worth killing half a million innocent oppressed people.

Jesus seems to have thought so, too. His people were more concerned with Clinton's hanky-panky with Monica Lewinsky than with his murderous sanctions against Iraq, and they consider Muslim admiration for Osama, whose fatwa was triggered by the carnage, proof of depravity.

A decade and a half later, we have ObamaCare, scanners at airports that virtually strip passengers naked, two wars in which "our" generals can't define what victory would look like, and a debt burden the whole planet couldn't hope to pay off. Tell me, adopted sibling of Jesus, has it been worth it? Is it worth more of the same?