It was like 2004 all over again on Sunday night as Galavant, the show that brings the Middle Ages alive through song and ironic jest, decided to bring mid-2000’s Iraq War humor to life through a funny, yet lame joke:
Galavant: I have a question. Do you still have an army?
Soldier: Uh, Citizens Army, yes.
Galavant: I’d like to use it to invade Hortensia.
Soldier: Absolutely not.
Galavant: Really? Well, hang on, I thought this was a Democracy. Aren’t you supposed to let the people decide?
Soldier: Oh yeah. Tell you what, there’s a Town Hall meeting tonight where anybody can bring up new business. Why don’t you give it a shot there?
Galavant: Ok.
Soldier: Now I can’t imagine a free people ever voting to send an army into an open-ended foreign conflict which profits only the few (looks directly into camera). That would be madness.
Galavant: Well sure, but you’re forgetting one thing. This smile.
Soldier: Oh yeah.
I’m still trying to figure out who are these few who “benefitted” from the Iraq War. Especially since we lost billions there. Not to mention the military expenses in material, plus the lives lost and forever changed.
But since that claim has become the unending praddle and fodder of leftist screen and television writers everywhere, I guess we already know who truly “benefitted” from the war.
