Here's looking and you , Kid. It is almost impossible to exaggerate the power and influence of culture upon the human animal. It is powerful enough to hold the sex urge in check and achieve premarital chastity and even voluntary vows of celibacy for life. It can cause a person to die of hunger, though nourishment is available, because some foods are branded unclean by the culture. And it can cause a person to disembowel or shoot himself to wipe out a stain of dishonour.
Culture is stronger than life and stronger than death.
So now our government wants to wage a war on terrorism. Let's hope it's a lot more successful than the war on drugs. Actually, the recent foray of terrorism to breach our defenses was probably such a success primarily because of our government's endless and mindless war on drugs. We have placed so much focus in recent years on protecting our borders against drug dealers and undocumented workers that we welcome bona fide enemy agents and terrorists into the heartland of our nation with open arms. Reliable reports indicate that Osama Phil Jackson is huddled up with Dr. Buss's daughter Jeannie somewhere deep in the Beverly Hills.