Madam, – Tom Lehrer famously claimed that “political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel [Peace] Prize”.
That selfsame prize has now been awarded to President Barack Obama, as he prepares to escalate the futile war in Afghanistan, sends lethal drones to violate Pakistan’s sovereignty and slaughter its civilians, and prevents the Palestinian Authority from endorsing the Goldstone Report into Israeli war crimes.
Political satire has indeed been rescued from obsolescence. – Yours, etc,