At 09:32 AM 3/19/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: >I think American resolve will fold if 5000 deaths of Americans occur in Iraq.
I'd give serious money to see Geraldo twitching on the ground, moustache preventing a good seal... >nuking Baghdad is silly. If even 10.000 U.S. soldiers are killed in a And the other 240,000 are stuck wearing full rubber suits... >I'm not even a despot, Somehow I find this an amusing sentence >This is why I hope the train wreck/clusterfuck in Iraq happens. Get our >country out of the "world's cop" business. No change without feedback. >> surburban shopping malls. They detonate simultaneously after 15 .. >So would a truck or van loaded with barrels of gasoline driven at high >speed into a crowded shopping center or other such location, Shopping malls are good, but elementary schools and schoolbusses are so much better on the psyche. Semiauto rifle vs. school deputy, low tech. Tanker of chlorine, much more colorful. Got Jersey Barriers? >> The U.S. would soon become accustomed to living in the same state of >> seige and constant surveillance that Israel enjoys. Precisely. Get involved with the Israelis and end up like them. Irony? Causality. >A readily-available RC-controlled plane could disperse biological >agents easily. Too tricky. SARS in Vegas, Branson, Disneylands. Multiple sources make analysis difficult. >I'm convinced that if the U.S. were libertarian, even libertine, that >many Muslims would think of us as corrupt...but I don't think much >organized effort would be directed against us. Exactly. You don't stress about the weirdos living at the end of the street if you can tune them out. Maybe it even boosts your self-righteousness to have such counterexamples. But if they do donuts on your lawn/mecca you may well find motivation to act. Territoriality is simple, suits or turbans don't change it. Then, given technical asymmetries, you improvise. Set 'em up, knock em down, Bowling for Allah. But the domestic psyop machine has jammed sheeple's heads, root causes are ever so complicated, "math is hard", so lets just kick back and enjoy the bloodbath..
