Musings on World War

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Wednesday February 14, 2007 · 10:50 PM PST

2007/02/14 · 22:50

I came across this at Antiwar.com, and thought I'd share it with you. It's quite terrifying. I only ask, rhetorically, Does it presage a world war?

Nathan Hammersmith

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Tuesday February 13, 2007 · 9:20 PM PST

2007/02/13 · 21:20

They promise us so many things, these men and women desirous of power. But you know, what most of them want is mean and mere: privilege, status, prestige, a transcendence of the law and wealth.

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Tuesday February 13, 2007 · 3:41 PM PST

2007/02/13 · 15:41

...and start talking about that bus's idling, its warming engine, its position on the outskirts of town. It can't be allowed to travel 20 feet, Dems. It's gotta be torn to shreds, with each part scattered over a 10,000-mile radius.

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Monday February 12, 2007 · 5:20 PM PST

2007/02/12 · 17:20

Today, in my Internet-cruising, I came across an alternately enraging and heartbreaking picture. It is distressing; it is sickening; it is colossally powerful; its reality is chillingly mundane, as far as the wider American world goes.

Nathan Hammersmith

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Thursday February 08, 2007 · 1:16 PM PST

2007/02/08 · 13:16

Directly before the Iraq war, I traded a few e-mails with Andrew Sullivan, who was exasperating the hell out of me at the time with his (I thought) rather breezy acceptance of Bush/Cheney talking-points regarding the war's urgent necessity - namely, Iraq's alleged possession of WMDs. Through my own research (before I discovered Dailykos, sorry) on sites like Antiwar.com and Talkingpointsmemo.com, as well as reading what Seymour Hersh was saying about "stovepiping" intelligence in the New Yorker, I'd concluded that the WMD charge was flimsy as hell, if not flimsier. But Andrew would hear none of it.

Nathan Hammersmith

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Wednesday February 07, 2007 · 8:47 PM PST

2007/02/07 · 20:47

The vampire owned a car, but he never drove it - or, he never drove it beyond this or that side of the street, to avoid it sitting in one place for longer than a day. Suspicious, you know. He'd learned in his time, for sure.

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Tuesday February 06, 2007 · 6:08 PM PST

2007/02/06 · 18:08

You have to love nefariousness, when Joe Lieberman's dealing in it. The twists are sublimely original, and the gall you can taste in your mouth. That's positively artistic, and sure as fuck not easy.

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Wednesday January 31, 2007 · 9:12 PM PST

2007/01/31 · 21:12

The above was spat out by a friend of mine in a fit of...a fit. He was rather upset. He was rather upset at the government - the federal version - "running roughshod all over my shit."

He'd just had a run-in, you see, with a rank-and-file dumbass, asking dumbass questions.

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Monday January 29, 2007 · 11:02 PM PST

2007/01/29 · 23:02

Those days of yore, oh days back there...I remember them well...

Nathan Hammersmith

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Friday January 26, 2007 · 1:50 PM PST

2007/01/26 · 13:50

I recently read a very astute essay in Harper's magazine by Edward Luttwak (no link available) regarding the history of insurgencies and counterinsurgencies, and what an effective counterinsurgency must do to succeed. It's heady, depressing stuff, and penetratingly instructive. Luttwak's ultimate thesis: that the U.S. can't win in Iraq, that it never could, and that what it would take to "win" would be unpalatable in the extreme to American citizens. (Except for, oh, Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh, say.)

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Thursday January 25, 2007 · 3:36 PM PST

2007/01/25 · 15:36

When Attorney General Alberto Gonzales declared that the Constitution doesn't guarantee habeas corpus rights to all Americans (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/24/MNGDONO11O1.DTL), it was as if dialogue that didn't make the novel 1984 was stuffed into Gonzales's and Arlen Spector's mouths, the former a calmly smiling O'Brien, the latter an impotently enraged Winston - the scariest conversational exchange, by far, in 217 years.

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Wednesday January 24, 2007 · 8:56 PM PST

2007/01/24 · 20:56

"When you start to feel for the man," said Clem, adjusting his tie, "that's when you know it's tidal...that's when you know there's a turning that's pendulous, swinging tight and fine, like a fiddler's bitch."

Clem loathes Shepherd's Pie. Understand that first. Understand his loathing for the Pie is everlasting, deep as shipwrecks. Now understand this: he loathes President Bush even more. Wrap your head around that one, pilgrims.

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