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June 9, 2005
Friday Reading & Misc.
You must immediately read this post from Dadmanly: Grief and Anger.
Geopolitical Review notes that 600 people have been killed in Thailand in the past 18 months as a result of terrorism.
COUNTERCOLUMN is in high dudgeon about the plans for the WTC memorial, and rightfully so. (Thanks to an Alert Reader for sending this link).
Was Hemingway a lousy war reporter?
A bit of, well, sobering humor from Tech Central Station: And So the Kinder, Gentler War on Terror Began...:
"I don't care, sir! If the bad guys have information, I'd do anything short of torture to get it out of them. I'd take to those Korans like Gallagher to watermelons. I'd use rendering plants, pigs in yarmulkes, Vegas strippers, wood-chippers, sumo wrestlers, leather-clad perverts, battery acid, Jesuits -- everything! I'd feed every last Koran in the world to rabid aardvarks if it would save the life of even one of my men. And if that ticks off the 'patriotic Iraqi protestors,' maybe somebody better tell them that in the civilized world, lives are worth more than books.""Guards, arrest that man on charges of bigotry and crimes against sensitivity!"
"I'm not a bigot, sir! If it was Catholics plotting terrorism, I'd hire fat guys to use consecrated hosts as deodorant pads. If Greenpeace was responsible for 9/11, I'd feed 'em dolphin nuggets at every meal. You can arrest me all you like, sir," cried Snuffy, as a horde of burly men dragged him away, "but if you keep playing pattycake with them insurgents, pretty soon me and all my hilljack buddies will get elected to high office, because the American people want soldiers to be soldiers and not diversity consultants. Get real with the bad guys, or we will!"
The Daily Demarche is organizing an exchange between left and right blogospheres. Careful. Actual debate taking place in a civil manner.
Pejmanesque: THOUGHT FOR THE DAY (THE "I REALLY WOULDN'T WANT TO MESS WITH HIM" EDITION). I think it's a good thought. The same one is in the first few chapters of "Ender's Game" I think.
Submit your questions to the Big Pharaoh here.
A bit off the beaten path (around here anyway): The creator of the popular The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster has now moved on to another "blognovel:" Simon of Space.
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Thoughts
The Bill Gertz story Analysts missed Chinese buildup makes me wonder: perhaps a cadre of intelligence generalists should be created within the intelligence agencies of the US? Rather than expertise in a specific region, they would be asked to analyze all manner of things. Some of their output would not be valuable because they would not latch on to the correct details. But much of it might find connections between far-flung events and between methods and conditions that stove-piped country-specialists, or technology-specialists, might not see as easily.
I wonder how often our nation's intelligence analysts are told to shut up and get back in their boxes? One reason I don't think I could do this.
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The mother of all blogrolls, is, as to be expected, taking longer than I thought it would. But I'm making some steady progress.
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Coming soon: The Adventures of Chester gear! You can be the first on your block to get some cool Adventures paraphernalia. Should be fun.
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Finally, I'm reading the new book, "Sniper" right now. Thus far (80 pages in) it's great. Brings back lots of memories of the invasion. When I'm done I'll post a review.
Posted by Chester at June 9, 2005 10:36 PM
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