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Shiny, Happy People

Only America can produce people this happy. ~William Tucker

Because only the American government sends so many of its people away from their homes to godforsaken, foreign deserts?

Of Tucker’s report, Wlady at AmSpec’s blog asks:

What does it say that on arrival at Baghdad International he has to wait long hours before it’s safe under cover of dark to be transported to the Green Zone?

Cue Hugh Hewitt: “It says that the surge is working!”

about the author

Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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