That ~5 year lead time, that is. (Maybe about the time the sleepers began to arrive in US for this job? - some think.)

Announcements from Mein Kampff II, wherein bin-L announced his plans, later made near-future predictions (which somehow presaged an actual Event - each time) umm several times, and in quite clear wording -

These were insufficiently impressive to the tough minded pragmatic spooks: those 'guardians against waste' of taxpayers money, for frivolous pursuits of guys with funny robes. Best (and lots less messy) to use nice techno- surveillance - just like that remote for the Tee Vee. Save those messy personnel and unsavory sources.
(you blew That one, Bill C. et al)

Contrasting a similar puzzle, though scientifically a vastly complex problem: Enigma, the German adaptation of a Swiss? enciphering device for commerce, in late '30s. A couple of Poles found a rather silly flaw: 1:1 mapping of keyboard to master rotor (Brit sleuths never thought to look - they *wouldn't* do something that simple!) then Alan Turing, etc.

I suppose that, had modern-day priorities operated then, and Enigma not been broken - Rommel would have won in N. Africa, the U-boats would have sunk all the Atlantic shipping: we'd be counting ein, zwei, drei.. non? Are we getting dumber or just more bizness-like - or is that the same?

Bitch bitch bitch.. 20/20 is so.. illuminating, no?





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Of course, any idiot knows where the [link|http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2001/07/23/tomo/index.html|real priorities lie...]

That sounds so dumb - it just might be brilliant! - except once ever seen as a ploy? Cancelled out. Only works once.

Yes, he's articulate, and many of his charges have basis in some facts of the US hegemony / lone 'super' status and, our actual national attitude about power and about $$. And even about our triviality, given our social habits..

But this is not about 'reasoning'. Given even a brilliantly written indictment of 'our' very many failures, our actions from ignorance of the inevitable consequences (supporting anti-democratic tyrants "in the name of democracy", trying to get everybody to stop drugs locally via Fascist methods - because our national appetite is insatiable!) etc.

In an honest debate (his book vs 'our' book):
We were utterly indispensable in the defeat of Nazism (as were the British indispensable in breaking Enigma - a main reason we all won a couple years early). The Marshall plan illustrates America at its finest - a complete reversal of the massive vengeance after WW-I. Etc. No other entity comes even close - we rebuilt Europe! after their cowardly appeasements almost gave Hitler his lebensraum.

So in the age of the net, and given bin-L's articulate presentation of the POV of the relatively powerless world he represents - IMhO you can't do Mein Kampff twice; you can't create Jews as scapegoats and Straw ones at that - twice. You can talk about the vicious dividing up of the whole world's wealth, of course - but then you would indict Most nations! Not merely in US - is the local wealth concentrated in the few (or a handful - try Saudi Arabia, one of 'his boys').

He'd lose that propaganda war - if there were such a thing left as 'honest debate'. (Still.. power corrupts and, we are approaching Absolute.)


My 3 zlotys.

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