About those translators -
I recall an article (but not where) describing a massacree of US translators, early-on -- ones deemed to possess homosexual tendencies / and or / reluctant to answer questions like, "whom did you vote for?" Natch they were on the streets before you could say, Air Traffic Controllers Fired en masse.
As there is nothing new under old sol - let us recall Stalin's purges of the general staff in late '30s. Still, it's difficult to assess which handful of the 100 major tactical and strategic errors since Shock n'Awe - were the deciding ones. Could it be that only 6 or 10 errors on the scale we committed them - would have sufficed to doom the whole fantasy-enterprise?
(It's so much easier to mull over a half dozen; a lot cheaper than by the gross, too.)
I can't IMAGINE the details of what -??- it will take to get the Decider out of office within << a year. Easier to imagine certain trends if we don't. Vividly.
