Doomed to Invade It
I was in Starbucks yesterday, and I’m in the habit of scanning over the newspapers while I wait for my drink. I caught this headline in the New York Times:
Some in G.O.P. Say Iran Threat Is Played Down
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 — Some senior Bush administration officials and top Republican lawmakers are voicing anger that American spy agencies have not issued more ominous warnings about the threats that they say Iran presents to the United States.
Here is the link, but I think that’s only publicly available for seven days, so the link will soon be useless.
I didn’t read the whole article then, but I’m glad that the first thought I had was also covered in the article: geez, this sounds pretty damn familiar, doesn’t it? The only difference between this intelligence situation and the slightly-post-9/11 intelligence situation is that we’re actually hearing about it ahead of time. But it still comes to:
(okay, think of Jon Stewart doing Dick Cheney as Burgess Meredith doing the Penguin:)
“Hwahhh hwahhh hwahhh! Need better intelligence! Can’t you see the threat posed by this disjoint, arbitrary collection of events that I can group together to draw conclusions I like, hwahhh? Hwahhh!”
ugh. I mean. If you’re going to hire experts, believe the experts. If you don’t believe them then don’t pay lip service to the idea you need them.
ah hell this post could be much better. think it needs someone with more insight to treat it properly.
August 25th, 2006 14:01
There’s a bookmarklet here to generate permanent NYT article links.
August 25th, 2006 14:38
Oh! Handy, thanks. Actually, without investivating further, I had assumed they hid their old posts behind a pay service.
August 26th, 2006 21:06
Hey, is this the website where such amusing quizzes as “Which Industrial Solvent Are You?” were hosted? Because those were great. When do you think those will be back up?
August 28th, 2006 08:35
Ah, yeah, it is, and thanks for reminding me. I’m kinda slacking on getting my site up.
August 28th, 2006 10:25
They do hide them behind a paywall, but somehow those links circumvent it. At least such is my understanding.
August 28th, 2006 11:17
And when will A1 be back? With its archives?
August 28th, 2006 12:13
And a pony. Can I have a pony?
August 28th, 2006 12:21
Is this that caption-a-blog-comment site I’ve heard so much about? Can we vote on comments? That pony one made me chuckle, but I didn’t quite get the humor in the paywall reference.