"We live on an island. A giant big fucking island. We don't understand that people actually get mad at us. We still think of ourselves in terms of WW2. It's not uncommon for us to say to France, 'Hey, you'd still be speaking German if it wasn't for us.' The problem is the world has changed, and our involvement in these tiny little places is different than it was in 1941. It was a lot clearer then. We were attacked." -- George Clooney on why we shouldn't fight Iraq or the War on Terrorism.

My staff writers want me to point out that Clooney probably knows what he's talking about. After all, he fought the Japanese in The Thin Red Line, and Saddam Hussein in Three Kings.