At 12:02 PM -0800 1/17/05, James A. Donald wrote:
After the unpleasant experience of nation bulding in Iraq, I hope that for the next round, he will stick to nation destruction.
Amen. All we really needed was a quick fly-by and reformat, and let Allah sort 'em out, on a grand tour of the um, holy land. Next stop Syria, Iran, etc. Oh, well. Dance with the statist girl who brung ya, and all that. Rummy saw the wisdom of <whatshisname, the pentagon analyst who came up with the original 50k number...>'s plan, but couldn't quite sell it to the Generals-that-be. Tommy had only a small sip of the Kool-Aide, and apparently, but tried to cut it with a whole *vat* full of tanker-piss... Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'