Malcolm Muggeridge once observed that modern life is so absurd that satire is no longer possible. "There is nothing you can imagine," he said, "that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well-known."
He was right. Having recently written Insecurity, a satire on political correctness run amok in the military and in government, I found that it was not easy to invent situations that were any more absurd than the ones being reported with a straight face in the daily news. For example, in an early draft of the book, my fictional president and his advisor, General Johnson, decide that they must take military action against the country of West Frackistan. But, of course, it has to be done in the proper way:
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