From: Sgt. Mom
To: All In Group
Re: Another Front in fighting Islamofacism

1. Whereas the our national defense against the forces of Islamic Fascism is being lead by those whose pay grade is far above mine, and those of my readers, and in many cases is being carried out in circumstances where all most of us can do is pray for the safety of the personnel involved, and cheer their success, there is one front which we have barely begun to exploit, and in which we can all participate.

2. Certain weblogs and puplications have begun this necessary work in sterling fashion, but the forces of Islamic fascism will not be truly vanquished until they are reduced to a laughingstock before the entire world. This will be a long, and hard slog, but the raw materiel they themselves provide are rich with possibilities. I myself can hardly wait to hear the first knock-knock joke involving a camel and Saddam Hussein in drag. Think about Skippy, the Iraqi Information Minister- the man parodied himself every time he opened his mouth.

3. The work will be long and hard, at first, and I understand that many of us would not at first undertake it in the spirit of necessary enthusiasm. But success builds on success, and as bullets and bombs find their mark, so does laughter prove as fatal to the humorless and fanatical. That we can laugh at them means we do not fear them, that they have been cut down to size and they have no more power over us. So pillory them with parody, scourge them with scornful laughter, fling the cream pie of derision in their direction, metaphorically de-bag them and giggle at their inadequate marital tackle, hector them ceaselessly with light-bulb jokes, knock-knock jokes, yo-mama-osama jokes, savage them with satire, lambaste them with dirty limericks and punish them with puns. A fanatic can handle anything but being laughed at. Don’t worry about making them mad, lord knows they hate us enough already, so we have nothing to lose

4. I know we are equal to this challenge, since complaints are unceasing about our low-brow cultural imperialism; this after all is the country responsible for Mad Magazine, Saturday Night Live, the Harvard Lampoon, Animal House, and the Comedy Channel, just to mention a few. We can cast off the shackles of political correctness in this great cause, and take the fight to a whole new level.

5. Let us so bear ourselves that in days to come, future generations will say, “That was the damn funniest joke I ever heard!” I repose great confidence in the creative genius of all who feel moved to do their part.

Sgt. Mom