Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] the poetry of donald rumsfeld

[Pierce T . Wetter III]

> >   Its not kosher for the "President" (by which I mean, Bush, Clinton 
> > or
> > Bush) to say:
>
> >    "Saddam is crazier then a sackful of weasels. He has to go."
>
> I agree.   On the other hand, I think it would be kosher for the
> president to say "Fuck it.   This is out of control.   We need to
> dominate this region in military terms."

 Ah, its so nice to talk to someone who isn't a total granola head on 
this issue.

 However, it would not be "kosher" (bad word choice for this region, 
Tom) for us
to say that. Besides, I don't think we want to dominate the region 
militarily,
that's too expensive. We just want to tip over one of the dominoes..

> >   Something about not having the leader of your country insult the
> > leader of
> > another country, or something. We could probably say it now, but no 
> > one
> > cares.
>
> Right.   The hypocracy of the divergence between internal intention
> and public justification is intolerable and dangerous.

  Yeah, I can't fault the decision, just the deplorable public 
diplomacy.
Of course, I live in a cowboy state (AZ), so I really understand the
concept of "doing, not talking".

> >   The focus on the WMD issue irritates me, because I took the time to
> > read all the state department briefings rather then be told what to
> > think by the media, not to mention pages and pages of personal
> > research. Our decision to go into Iraq was quite complicated and
> > agonizing,
>
> I don't think so.  I think the decision was based on "they're weak
> enough we can do it" and the agony was entirely over "how to sell it".

  While "They're weak enough we can do it" was definitely an "plus", it 
was
still a tough call. I'm not THAT cynical.


> Yup.   By the time you boil it down to that level of detail, you've
> found your reason to vote for Kerry even though it doesn't make all
> that much difference.

 Ugh. I wouldn't go that far. Have you actually read anything Kerry's 
written?
I'm not going to vote for Kerry just because I think Bush could have 
done a
better job, I'd have to think Kerry could do a better job, which I 
don't.

Hell, I could have done a better job at my work yesterday, that doesn't 
mean I
should get fired.

 Pierce