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sisyphusshruggedguess who we aren't really concerned about?
I guess if 70% of Bush voters think that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, the guy who was actually behind 9/11 doesn't matter any more.
There's a seductive logic to playing within a gamed system. You can try to build your case for the future based on the dominant narrative and you'll be taken more seriously by people who have an investment in the dominant narrative. You didn't vote for holy war, you voted for your tax cuts. You didn't attack the Democrats or adopt Republican spin because you wanted Bush to win, you did it because, well, the left really annoys you.
Many, many people have gone broke in Vegas and Atlantic City operating with the same logic.
If you're playing with other people's lives, then you're taking sides with the house.
That means you're complicit.
If you're comfortable being complicit with the people in power right now, you must be very happy.
The Republicans told you right up until election day who they were and what they wanted. You knew better, right? It wasn't about all that. It was about whatever you cared about.
Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan and Jerry Falwell are down the end of that road waiting for you.
Have fun.
A senior CIA official says the number of agents assigned to bringing down al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is shrinking, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Michael Scheuer, one of the most senior intelligence officers in the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit told the newspaper more than 50 percent of those working on terrorism and against bin Laden are assigned to the job temporarily, for 30 to 90 days at a time.
Some of the most experienced officers have been assigned to Iraq or sent to the FBI or the Department of Homeland Security's new terrorist threat information center, he said.
In his opinion, Scheuer said, the result is "in the long term, we're less safe than we should be."
I guess if 70% of Bush voters think that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, the guy who was actually behind 9/11 doesn't matter any more.
There's a seductive logic to playing within a gamed system. You can try to build your case for the future based on the dominant narrative and you'll be taken more seriously by people who have an investment in the dominant narrative. You didn't vote for holy war, you voted for your tax cuts. You didn't attack the Democrats or adopt Republican spin because you wanted Bush to win, you did it because, well, the left really annoys you.
Many, many people have gone broke in Vegas and Atlantic City operating with the same logic.
If you're playing with other people's lives, then you're taking sides with the house.
That means you're complicit.
If you're comfortable being complicit with the people in power right now, you must be very happy.
The Republicans told you right up until election day who they were and what they wanted. You knew better, right? It wasn't about all that. It was about whatever you cared about.
Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan and Jerry Falwell are down the end of that road waiting for you.
Have fun.
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Date: 2004-11-09 12:45 pm (UTC)I wouldn't be surprised if we don't start getting terror alerts until after the next damning piece of news about the Bush administration comes out.
A *serious* tinhat would ask
Date: 2004-11-09 03:36 pm (UTC)There are exclusive family compounds, besides that underground one of Dick Cheney's, you know.
Not that I think that this is so, but in a surreal, "The Prisoner" kind of world, it makes sense. (Emmanuel Goldstein is on MiniTrue's payroll and works from one of their branch offices...)
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Date: 2004-11-09 03:21 pm (UTC)Nina