Post #111,010
7/22/03 10:13:44 PM
7/23/03 1:24:10 AM
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great minds run in similar gutters
Our marlowe keeps an eye on the global hotspots. There are so many of them: on which, when and why should Our Nation's Terrible Swift Sword next descend? Well, Liberia, for one. Why? Either we go in and kick ass or we look weak. How keenly reasoned! How statesmanlike! How...how oddly familiar! Surely I've heard this reasoning before?...Why, yes! I remember now! I was but a beardless high school senior that distant Thursday evening in late April 1970 when President Nixon let us in on another component of his Secret Plan to End the War™ (specifically the invasion of Cambodia) in the following deathless words: if, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world. That marlowe apparently doesn't recognize that in making his present keen analysis he is, to paraphrase Newton and Nixon, standing on the shoulders of "a pitiful, helpless giant," is altogether understandable: surely on that April day (less than a week before those soi-disant students got what was coming to 'em at Kent State) he was, if even among the living, still filling his parents with loathing and his diapers with sludge several times a night--come to think of it, he has continued as he has begun, with iwethey in the unlikely in loco parentis role. cordially, [edit: tweak] Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Edited by rcareaga
July 23, 2003, 01:24:10 AM EDT
great minds run in similar gutters
Our marlowe keeps an eye on the global hotspots. There are so many of them: on which, when and why should Our Nation's Terrible Swift Sword descend? Well, Liberia, for one. Why? Either we go in and kick ass or we look weak. How keenly reasoned! How statesmanlike! How...how oddly familiar! Surely I've heard this reasoning before?...Why, yes! I remember now! I was but a beardless high school senior that distant Thursday evening in late April 1970 when President Nixon let us in on another component of his Secret Plan to End the War™ (specifically the invasion of Cambodia) in the following deathless words: if, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world. That marlowe apparently doesn't recognize that in making his present keen analysis he is, to paraphrase Newton and Nixon, standing on the shoulders of "a pitiful, helpless giant," is altogether understandable: surely on that April day (less than a week before those soi-disant students got what was coming to 'em at Kent State) he was, if even among the living, still filling his parents with loathing and his diapers with sludge several times a night--come to think of it, he has continued as he has begun, with iwethey in the unlikely in loco parentis role. cordially, Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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Post #111,056
7/23/03 12:44:41 AM
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!____Sic transit Gloria Neoconiensis
Damn.. OK, whose turn to change the kid?
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Post #111,071
7/23/03 1:26:03 AM
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Phew!
You first.
breathlessly,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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Post #111,095
7/23/03 9:32:32 AM
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You'd better have a talk with Mr. Whysall
Last I checked he was all for the US violating the sovereignty of the current regime in Liberia. But maybe he's changed his mind since then.
Kofi Annan was also making a big noise about it. I wonder why.
But I'll grant you this much: you and your compatriots know a lot more about looking weak than I do.
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DEAL WITH IT.
It's time for the US to infringe on the sovereignty of Liberia!
Never mind all the mass graves. Where's the nerve gas?
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Post #111,099
7/23/03 9:45:28 AM
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Marlowe as parent
Scene: Supermarket
2 yr old son: Daddy, NO! (as all 2 yo do)
Marlowe: What! how dare you say no to me. Hit, kick, punch, stomp. I'm your father, I'm bigger than you. Hit, kick, stomp.
Police: Why?
Marlowe: Well, I didn't want to look weak before the other shoppers.
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Post #111,128
7/23/03 11:41:59 AM
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Re: You'd better have a talk with Mr. Whysall
I was only pointing out that if it's OK to violate the sovereignty of Iraq, then you'd better get started everywhere else, too.
Peter
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Post #111,133
7/23/03 12:21:02 PM
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Not everywhere else.
Just where murderous monsters rule, and particularly where they threaten the safety of decent countries. In other words, all the places where the usual gang of hypocrites would prefer we *not* go in. (And no, I don't think Mr. Annan is entirely sincere in wanting US intervention in Liberia. I do hope we call his bluff soon.)
If this doesn't meet with your approval, well... that's your problem.
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DEAL WITH IT.
It's time for the US to infringe on the sovereignty of Liberia!
Never mind all the mass graves. Where's the nerve gas?
[link|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html|http://www.angelfire...arlowe/index.html]
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Post #111,144
7/23/03 12:54:16 PM
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So
when is the US going to go after the government of Colombia, Guatemala, and Ecuador?
Oh wait... they were training the murderers there in how to be better at their job. Right.
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