Desperate Housewives: a show about a particular street in a particular neighborhood with more drama in one episode than most of us experience in a lifetime. There’s blackmail, people setting fires to other people’s houses, crazy people, people hiding their dead husbands in their freezer, people getting together, and then breaking up, and then getting back together again, people trying to kill other people, people succeeding in killing other people, and, well, you get the picture.
The point is that this show is all about survival. It’s about the characters doing questionable things to get what they want, even when it means stabbing their ‘friends’ in the backs. Everyone who has ever been on the show has their own motives that they intend to act upon regardless of how it affects other people. There aren’t really any ‘good guys’ in this television show.
The connection to the war in Iraq is this: America is over there for personal reasons without regard to the best interest of the country. We want oil at prices that suit us, and we’re doing a lot to achieve that goal. On the other hand, the terrorists we’re after aren’t exactly ‘innocents.’ It’s a case of everyone involved being in the wrong in some way.
The difference – neighbors fighting over everything imaginable is a lot more relatable to the American public than what we’re doing over in Iraq, and it’s a lot more entertaining, as well.
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