Mr. Halper, on 2nd thought...

Submitted by LDC (United States), Jun 22, 2007 at 18:58

...after reading Julie O'Neill's comments on this page, I'm warming up to your position. Here's what it looks like if the comments registered under her name represent the majority of Americans:

After several weeks of homicide bombings (and several sympathic CNN specials on the profiles of the young suicide bombers), the US Congress will form a delegation led by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Hagel, Teddy Kennedy, Lindsay Graham, Olivia Snow, and John Murtha to meet with a group representing the Intifadesimos, all of whom will be wearing black head sacks, black IZOD golf shirts, and black Docker slacks. This will happen at an undisclosed location somewhere in the burbs of Detriot where there is a dense population of Middle Easterners, as you know. The only "journalist" allowed to attend the meeting will be Oprah, much to the dismay of Jeraldo.

As the meeting is going on, TV talking heads will fill the tense waiting time building great expectations for a resolution to the American Intifada (the NBC News banner reads: American Intifada-Day 72).

After several anxious hours (Intifada Summit--Hour 11), Nancy and Harry will reappear (Oprah will stay to do a special with the Intifadesimos entitled "Understanding Their Side"). Nancy P will emerge from the meeting dressed in all black with only her eyes showing (which won't make her plastic surgeon happy at all!).

Harry will hold up a piece of paper and say that it represents an agreement between the Intifadesimos and the US Congress whereby the Inti's (for short) can form their own government within the US and install their own legal system, much in the model of what France will do.

"This represents," Harry will say, as he waves the paper, "peace in our time."

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