We Shall Overcome (?)

[judecorp]

rizzo41 and I are headed into the City with a bag full of toiletries and toothbrushes. It's not much, but it's something.

It will be the first time I've walked through Manhattan since.

It will also be the last time before I go back to icky Ohio.

W. is telling the military to "get ready." I don't like this. Doesn't anyone THINK about what this will do? Do we have to make this into a "holy war"? Does he not see that he's playing directly into The Script?

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[cfred.livejournal.com]

Doesn't anyone THINK about what this will do? Do we have to make this into a "holy war"? Does he not see that he's playing directly into The Script?

Spot on, Jude.

I think the fact that we have gone five days without a military strike might already be playing outside their script, however.

They want John Wayne (sorry, Duke! Yours is the best image here) to come in with guns blazing, so they can galvanize support against the U.S. and make this an all out "holy war."

They want us to use Pakistan as a staging area. That's a win-win for them: either it pushes rebels within the country to overthrow the Pakistani government, or it forces us to prop up the Pakistani government and irritate India.

Yes, the military needs to get ready. If nothing else, we do need to bolster our home defense. We probably will need some sort of armed incursion to extract the terrorist leadership. (Considering who it probably is, we almost need, to an extent, to correct our own previous error--or, guess which three-letter agency threw a lot of money somebody's way 20 years ago?)

We don't need another Korea or Vietnam.