Demosophia

A Comprehensible Euro-Perspective

provided by a British friend of mine on the Rice testimony, who is typically brief and to the point:

I saw a bit of that on the BBC, & I thought she put up a pretty good defence.

So what's the deal......Dubya had bin Laden's war plan in front of him & just went off to eat a few steaks in Texas, instead of getting down to evacuating every skyscraper in America, & stripsearching all airline passengers, just in case?

Wasn't Richard Clarke the man who gave the bin Laden relatives free passage back to Saudi on 10/11 [I think he means 9/12]?

I don't really understand your politics.....that's "your" as in American......but this kind of thing freaks me out.

You people crap out of this now, & the whole world is f#@ked.

Demosophia's taking a big hit here, folks.

The problem with this sort of thing is that what "they" do, that ends up being successful, is always something we didn't predict, because they keep probing until they find a blind spot or weakness. So the result is determined by their strategy.

Seriously, why don't the Democrats on the 9/11 Commission understand this? Had we not been vulnerable to this particular form of attack the enemy'd have kept probing until they found a different blind spot, and we'd now be arguing about how we ought to have foreseen that. Isn't it obvious how inadequate this approach is? At least now we're on a full war footing, whereas before the inevitable sucker punch no one was prepared for a real fight, least of all Clinton/Gore.

Which is, of course, all entirely beside the point. Unless we destroy totalitarianism in its leftward, rightward, and religious formulations the problem with terrorism will just keep escalating. Appeasement was never an option. And the current battles in Iraq are just that: battles in a much larger war.

Here's what happens to drivers fixated on the rear-view mirror (image courtesy of COINTELPRO Tool):

Posted by Demosophist at April 9, 2004 06:22 AM | TrackBack