59 Nor do you,
60 For this is the nature of my agift to you,
61 bWhich is the freedom to accept my answers,
62 cBecause they seem like they would be hard to refute,
63 If you thought about them at all,
64 dAnd so why bother?
65 And then did the men buy Harry a drink and change the subject away from international politics to something more rewarding,
66 Specifically, the legs of the waitress with the pink shoes,
67 Which were so incredibly wonderful that everyone agreed they were a emiracle,
68 Without thinking about it at all.
CHAPTER 261 On another day, Harry was hanging out at a VFW hall in Port Richmond,
2 When a young man came up to him and said, "I have heard you on the fradio,
3 g"And I get the feeling that you don't love our country,
4 h"And wouldn't serve it if they asked you to,
5 "Which is why I think your head is made of excrement,
6 "And why I would like to invite you out into the street to settle it like a man,
7 "Instead of a dirty yellow coward."
8 Thereupon did iHarry make a sign to the cameraman to come back out of the cloakroom,
9 And pick up his camera,
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10 So that Harry's words could be properly recorded.
11 When this had been done, Harry said to the young man, I cannot but admire the certainty with which you accost me in this manner,
12 And I would indeed enjoy the experience of trading blows with you in a parking lot full of broken glass,
13 Where one or the other of us would surely prevail,
14 But I would not insult you by fighting with you on behalf of a view that I do not hold,
15 Because I defer to no one in my love of the Most Chosen Nation on Earth,
16 Which has achieved a pinnacle of freedom never offered to any people in history,
17 Namely, the absolute right to be completely self-righteous about refusing to risk one's life for anything ever,
18 Because nowhere else on this globe is it possible to disguise jgarden-variety self-interest as the most exalted moral principle ever divined by mortal man,
19 And get away with it completely,
20 With the possible exception of Europe, of course, where undisguised cowardice has replaced all the official religions as a unanimous faith.
21 But it is only here, in this Most Chosen Nation on Earth, that it is possible to tolerate kpetty tyrannies at a vast distance,
22 And warmly congratulate ourselves for the loftiness of a morality which sneers at the primitive millions who seek to make war against mere ldespots,
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