Sometimes humor is all we have left that keeps us going.
I can remember jokes about Hitler during WWII, of course we weren't so damned PC then.
Just to make Max Tone feel a little better here's some email I received from a friend recently.
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Killing Osama bin Laden will only create a martyr. Holding him prisoner will inspire comrades to take hostages to demand his release.
Therefore, I suggest we do neither.
Let the Special Forces, Seals, or whoever -- covertly capture him, fly him to an undisclosed hospital, and have surgeons quickly perform a complete sex change operation.
Then we return HER to Afghanistan to live as a woman under the Taliban.