What a perfect analogy! Found on a blog:

I will readily admit that I was opposed to the invasion of Iraq from the very start. I remember an analogy I made at the time...something like here I am walking down the street and out pops some guy who has threatened or attacked me several times before. He murders my wife and children in front of me. In my shock and grief-driven rage, I start chasing him down the street. I'm gaining on him, but then I see this other guy I have hated for good reason for several years across the street. I stop chasing the guy who killed my family, run across the street and start beating the crap out of the guy I hate for good reason but who had nothing to do with what just happened. I kill several innocent bystanders in the process. Then, as I am finishing him off, all of his friends and the relatives of the innocents in my way come out and start kicking my ass. Then all the people who hate the people now kicking my ass come out and everything gets completely out of control with everyone fighting everyone. I am in the middle, cannot get out, have done things in my anger and my rage I will never live down and the guy who killed my family is long gone. Here it is four years later and my friends are coming out of the woodwork saying "Pretty prophetic analogy, dude." Oh...and in the middle of that analogy, several members of my extended family drowned in a flood that slowly inundated my house because I was too busy fighting to get them out in time.

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In response to some right-wing email tripe called the difference between conservatives and liberals where both are confronted with an attacker. The liberal agonizes defending himself and his family because his attacker might be a different race, or society may have turned him this way, etc. The conservative response is, "Bang." The southern conservative response is, "Bang bang bang bang bang click click click."

A guy at our small company (run by a religious conservative but nice guy) sent that out, and I replied all saying that the conservative version wasn't right. First off the conservative family is walking in an area they were warned not to go into (much like the warning Bush got about Al-Qaida planning on using planes to attack us). Secondly, like your example, he decides not to go after his attacker but a guy across the street who had nothing to do with his family getting killed. After finally getting that guy, he claims victory to his friends, acquaintances, and anyone else who will listen although the real killer of his family is still alive and mails him videotapes taunting him for his inability to get him. Etc.

The boss called the originator of the email into office to tell him not to send out any more political stuff because I would reply to it like I did that one. :)

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