Oh what strange days. I recall Rumfield's words early on: something to the effect that we do not know who the enemy is, where the theater will be and we do not have a timeline, BUT WE ARE GOING TO WAR! Hallelujah! War sweet war. Someone once said to be loved by the Great Unwashed, all a leader has to do is to create some horror, real or imagined, from which to deliver them. It is starting to appear that this "War on Terrorism" may have the hypnotic power to justify anything. What is particularly scary to me is that over the past few years I gotten to know the guys who were fighting the "War on Drugs" (but not on snow days or when their kids had a soccer game or any Federal holiday or on rainy Mondays...) who are now assigned to our new threat. Believe me, you can count on them to calculate how many minutes of service it takes to retire from the government, but there are two things you do NOT want to depend on them to protect: your Constitution or your ass. Rich |
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