••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

ex-secdef's (no! not that one!) novel terror premise


c-span regularly describes book tv weekends as 48 hours of nonfiction book events, but apparently they make exceptions.

in the last seven months former gop senator and clinton cabinet officer bill cohen has been granted three separate opportunities to promote his novel, dragon fire: a 1-hour talk and two short interviews. lucky him.

this weekend i finally listened long enough to get a brief plot summary: a couple guys conspire to commit acts of terror and make them look like accidents.

imagine! a secretary of defense who has no grasp of the objective of terrorism.

at least now i know rummy's not unique.

for those of you scratching your heads, let me put it this way:

9/11 was terrorism and katrina wasn't, right? think of how the feds dealt with them.

post-9/11 the world changed, it's a whole new kind of war, we need to fight'em there so we don't have to fight'em here, we need stronger homeland security and border security, you get tapped if you talk on the phone with anyone outside the country suspected of having terrorist ties, anyone someone decides is an enemy combatant gets locked up indefinitely without lawyer or hearing and often gets treated very badly and sent to another country and/or tortured or maybe if lucky a military trial in cuba of all places, if you enter the US illegally or overstay your visa you get called an invader, we intimidate and threaten and attack anyplace we think aids terrorists or might make a weapon we fear, crusade, you're either with us or with terrorists, WMD, freedom fries, preemption, they hate us because they hate freedom, a liberation not an occupation, flip-flop, swiftvet, ketchup king, abu ghraib, gitmo, waterboard, warrantless eavesdrop, extraordinary rendition, signing statement, stay the course, cut and run, troop surge....

you think anyone would ever suggest the govt overreacted to katrina?

not likely, right?

that's why a terrorist wants us to know an attack is no accident.

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