the coalescence of the willing
May. 14th, 2004 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisyphusshruggedSteve at What? Me Nice Blog? informs us that Sen. Specter has decided that Zarqawi is more of a threat to us than bin Laden.
See, this is why timing is everything. If we had just realized that before the war, we maybe could have found him out in the desert like a big fat sitting target and bombed the shit out of him. A thing like that can spoil your whole day if you're a terrorist mastermind.
Oh, wait. We did find him out in the desert like a big fat sitting target and the professional military tried to convince the folks who are running this debacle that it might be a good time to bomb the shit out of him, but they were iced because taking out an actual identified and located threat to the United States who had already attacked us and was sitting patiently in the gunsights might have distracted us from the runup to the war in Iraq.
Then we might have had to wait for the UN to get involved against Iraq, and what is it, seven? eight? hundred coalition soldiers wouldn't be dead along with Iraqi citizens in what are believed to be the five figures, seven hundred of whom we think Zarqawi was responsible for personally, and Instapundit and Lileks and the rest of the keyboard brigade would still be in the throes of passionate love for the suffering Iraqi people they now want us to use nuclear weapons on and start World War stinking 3.
World War 4, if you recall, will be fought with rocks and sticks, which is convenient, because we had better things to do than develop alternative and renewable fuel resources.
On the downside, in a post-apocalyptic world, your WiFi is probably screwed.
Arlen. Dude. Bummer.
edit: Parenthetically, that about the keyboard brigade? Not hyperbole.
Which begs the question: if you're working for the reelection of Our Fearless Leader and his team, can you get workman's comp for being a moral cripple even if it's a pre-existing condition?
See, this is why timing is everything. If we had just realized that before the war, we maybe could have found him out in the desert like a big fat sitting target and bombed the shit out of him. A thing like that can spoil your whole day if you're a terrorist mastermind.
Oh, wait. We did find him out in the desert like a big fat sitting target and the professional military tried to convince the folks who are running this debacle that it might be a good time to bomb the shit out of him, but they were iced because taking out an actual identified and located threat to the United States who had already attacked us and was sitting patiently in the gunsights might have distracted us from the runup to the war in Iraq.
Then we might have had to wait for the UN to get involved against Iraq, and what is it, seven? eight? hundred coalition soldiers wouldn't be dead along with Iraqi citizens in what are believed to be the five figures, seven hundred of whom we think Zarqawi was responsible for personally, and Instapundit and Lileks and the rest of the keyboard brigade would still be in the throes of passionate love for the suffering Iraqi people they now want us to use nuclear weapons on and start World War stinking 3.
World War 4, if you recall, will be fought with rocks and sticks, which is convenient, because we had better things to do than develop alternative and renewable fuel resources.
On the downside, in a post-apocalyptic world, your WiFi is probably screwed.
Arlen. Dude. Bummer.
edit: Parenthetically, that about the keyboard brigade? Not hyperbole.
Which begs the question: if you're working for the reelection of Our Fearless Leader and his team, can you get workman's comp for being a moral cripple even if it's a pre-existing condition?
no subject
Date: 2004-05-14 01:02 pm (UTC)If I didn't try to keep the politics separate from the
no subject
Date: 2004-05-14 01:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-14 05:32 pm (UTC)Scorpio
Eccentricity (http://scorpio.typepad.com/eccentricity/)
"He's done the neares he can to 'executing the office" --
at least it is severely wounded.