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July 30, 2007

"Men Who Wear Red Shirts Are Crazy And Dangerous," Said The Man In The Red Shirt

Kenneth Pollack, writing an op-ed for the New York Times with Michael O’Hanlon today:

A War We Might Just Win

Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily “victory” but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with...

[T]here is enough good happening on the battlefields of Iraq today that Congress should plan on sustaining the effort at least into 2008.

Kenneth Pollack, writing in The Threatening Storm in 2002:

Saddam has a twenty-eight year pattern of aggression, violence, miscalculation, and purposeful underestimation of the consequences of his actions that should give real pause to anyone...

Even when Saddam does consider a problem at length...his own determination to interpret geopolitical calculations to suit what he wants to believe anyway lead him to construct bizarre scenarios that he convinces himself are highly likely.

Posted at July 30, 2007 10:16 AM | TrackBack
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Why the fuck anyone would pay any attention to anything that worthless sack of shit Kenneth Pollack thinks is completely beyond me.

But, then, I clearly don't understand a lot of people.

Posted by: Mike at July 30, 2007 10:40 AM

Does the very title of his book, "The Threatening Storm", just sound inherently cheesy to y'all?

It's like what a sixth grader would name their essay on how Saddam Hussein was a bad, scary man. Maybe Bart Simpson's nerdy friend.

Posted by: atheist at July 30, 2007 01:13 PM

I love these sorts of posts. Great title, a couple stupifying quotes, and the reader gets to interpret the obvious absurdity in his or her own personal way.


Makes me miss the Whiskey Bar.

Posted by: oyster at July 30, 2007 01:39 PM

ONLY 49 1/2 more years to go in Iraq, we can do that standing on our heads. If it costs every AMERICAN TAXPAYER a dollar a day, (of course it's more) for 49 1/2 years that's------????

Posted by: Mike Meyer at July 30, 2007 04:32 PM

Bush has a six year pattern of aggression, violence, miscalculation, and purposeful underestimation of the consequences of his actions that should give real pause to anyone...

Even when Bush does consider a problem at length...his own determination to interpret geopolitical calculations to suit what he wants to believe anyway lead him to construct bizarre scenarios that he convinces himself are highly likely.

Amazing what a little name substitution can do to a quote, isn't it?

Posted by: President Lindsay at July 30, 2007 09:32 PM

President Lindsay:I guess that's what they teach you at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, these days. I'm shocked, as I had an all together different idea of such places.( I would have loved going to Harvard)

Posted by: Mike Meyer at July 31, 2007 12:49 AM

Gumby: (standing in water) I would put a tax on all people who stand in water ... (looks round him)... Oh!

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/thingy.htm

But even he realised what he'd said.

Mike: how many Irax dollars did you pay today?

Posted by: me at July 31, 2007 04:14 AM

me: Well I'll probably fill up the truck today, thats 60-70 bucks so I'm guessing 25 dollars.

Posted by: Mike Meyer at July 31, 2007 09:56 AM

THAT'S why WE kill Iraqis and others of their ilk. So that YOU or I , not matter what kind of guzzler WE got, can conviently drive right up to the PUMP and PAY TAXES.(TO KEEP IT ALL GOING)

Posted by: Mike Meyer at July 31, 2007 08:53 PM

USE a swipe card, do ya? NEVER quit, will ya?

Posted by: Mike Meyer at July 31, 2007 08:55 PM