Blowing Leaves

Same old song,
just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground,
though we refuse to see
--Dust in the Wind, Kansas

--You don't think it's kinda weird and fascist?
--Possibly, but you don't want to be unemployed.
--Oh well, all right, let's all sell our souls
and work for Satan because it's more convenient that way.
--American Beauty (1999)
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Driving the swank neighborhoods in California led Ranger to the perfect metaphor for the Phony War on Terror (PWOT ©): Witness, the leaf blower.

Yup, the PWOT -- like the leaf blower -- is powered by gas mixed with oil, and is carried on the backs of our Mexicans, er, troops.

Leaf blowers are actually quite useless and noisy offenses. The blowers just move the leaves around. They violate a principle rule of effort: they mistake movement for progress. One uses the contraption to move leaves onto another's property, after which time the honor is reversed.

It is a Long Process, and the leaves never disappear, they simply move around the neighborhood (nj.com has a video of a yard guy in fatigues and combat boots futilely blowing the leaves into the West wind, for a camo-perfect view of the process.)

Leaf blowing -- the perfect cognate to the PWOT.