So it really doesn't matter who's firing those warning shots and who's not

U.S. Students Remain Poor at History, Tests Show - NYTimes.com

American students are less proficient in their nation’s history than in any other subject, according to results of a nationwide test released on Tuesday...

Nobody knows the difference anyway. Or cares. It doesn't matter all that much, which is a good thing for our man Mittens who had this to say at the debate last night (no link because my allowance ran out, eeek), as reported by the NYTimes:

"Our troops shouldn't go off and try and fight a war of independence for another nation...Only the Afghanis can win Afghanistan's independence from the Taliban."

Really. How that makes any sense at all is way beyond me. In the first place, Afghanistan is already an independent country (or were until we arrived), so saying it is fighting a war of independence really doesn't work too well, and in the second, even if Afghanistan is trying to win independence from the Taliban, that makes as much sense as saying the United States is trying to win independence from the Tea Party.

Oh, wait.