Anymore, it seems like American foreign policy is a video game. In the media, it looks virtual; it seems like an online sport with scores (ie. 300 in Ukraine). And it is about as consequential to polls.
Sometimes, we look like Flappy Bird. Our delegates dodge swelling convulsions in foreign countries--flapping over, under, and around them with frowning faces. Their faces seem to say the mayhem is kept down by their frenetic frowning and dodging. Perhaps the 'game' manual they opt to reference contains instructions like these: "use only three of the controls to win--the arrows to evade, the grimace button, and the gorilla grimace button--use the gorilla grimace button only for extraordinary emergencies". But is the object of this 'game' to frown and dodge? Who is actually at the controls? Is this video game something we can just turn off and put away like a teen when we tire of it or when we get 'poned shamefully for confining ourselves to only three controls (among many) and keeping one hand tied behind our back? If we do, will its mayhem land in our living rooms and its gore spatter the walls of our homes?
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