THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
The Nips detect a patternThe Yanks learn what apocalyptic means
Chapter 121
Of course, the A-Bomb didn’t scare the Yanks any,
2Because they were the only ones that had it,
3And it seemed like a pretty good thing all in all,
4Since the Yanks had lost almost half a million troops saving the world for democracy,
5This time,
6And if it hadn’t been for the A-Bomb,
7They might have lost three or four times that,
8Which is fine if you’re a qEuropean country,
9But completely unacceptable if you’re a Yank.
10And so the Yanks listened politely when the Europeans and other intellectuals talked about how dangerous the Bomb was,
11And how destructive,
12And how apocalyptic,
13aBecause if anybody tried to fight another world war with nuclear weapons, there might not be anything left afterwards,
14Which made the Yanks nod vigorously,
15Now that they knew what apocalyptic meant,
16Besides being secretly pleased and proud that it was the Yanks who invented nuclear weapons first,
17Because how long would the world last if somebody else had been first,
18Somebody not as God-fearing and moral as the Yanks,
19Somebody who would use nuclear weapons to rule the world?
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