At the end of her modest proposal in the LA Times (November 26, 2006), Barbara Garson wrote,
"So I have written to the U.S. government, volunteering to travel through these dark corners of the Middle East, collecting ethnic jokes for our assault. Yet, so far, the CIA, National Security Agency and Pentagon have not responded to my offer. I'd like to believe that's because they already have their own operatives at work on the plan.
Our commander in chief has made it clear that he feels obliged to destabilize the Iranian government because of the threat it poses to world peace. If he must go ahead, I think we owe it to the world at least to try ethnic jokes before we escalate to nuclear weapons.
Speaking of which, has anybody heard any good North Korean jokes?"
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