Lots of those acronym named maladies floating around nowadays.You know of the ones I’m talking about– PTSD, CFS, ALS, SAD, MS and the original(?) one of them all – PMS. (Remember the Gary Shandling joke as he made a grimacing face “I could be the poster child for PMS.”)
But here is a new one that I’ve been experiencing a lot lately – MEFS which indicates Middle East Fatigue Syndrome.When hearing stories about anything to do with the Middle East and their sorry state of affairs, MEFS is marked by an onset of headaches, depression and irritability (guess I omitted IBS from the above examples).
Regardless whether the report is about them beheadingor blowing each other up or destroying priceless art (above) it all just gives me one giant migraine. Then there is this silly ongoing discussion about whether or not to call it a religious war . (I recall some college professor claiming that all wars were religious wars whether due to the religion of money, religion of power, religion of land or the religion of ideas.) Bottom line, MEFS makes me sick of hearing about anything having anything to do with the Middle East.
And just when you thought it couldn’t get any more absurd, how about this latest churn over Israel’s Netanyahu coming over here to address Congress and tell us not to allow Iran to develop a nuclear bomb? In true Middle East CFness (new malady I just coined) it has set offa shit circus between the Republicans and Dems as to whether or not Boehner should have invited him. Obama’s pissed but so what? My take is that anything to make those clowns have to sit for a couple hours and be lectured to sounds like a worthwhile venture to me.
Only question I have about it is that Net is supposed to be an ally of ours and yet here he is causing all this hate and discontent. Leads one to wonder – with friends like that……. Someone please, pass me the Tylenol.
