[Charles Martel]

Another clown car thing that the rest of the world will snicker at.

Yep, despite much of said world struggling with pyrotechnics on any scale larger than a bottle rocket.

[dforest]

Very true. That said, we are past the point of the excuse of this being a single episode of American incompetence. It is the last in a long line of proof of American decline.

This will be used to point out the joke America has become.

Sad thing is that we cannot deny the truth.