Keith Hudson wrote:
>
> Brad,
>
> At 04:46 21/09/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Morning, ye across the pond (it's 04:30 AM here in the colonies)!
>
> Cor! Much enjoyed your piece. And I even understood you this time! Not one
> mention of Kant, Habermas or Nietzsche! (Glad that you're reading one of my
> gurus, though -- Freeman Dyson.)
Freeman Dyson worked for Bomber Command in WWII.
Meanwhile, back as Los Alamos, Richard Feynmann was exit-ing the
premises by wriggling under a hole in the perimeter fence but
coming back in the main gate so that the bean counters would be
puzzled how he could enter 50 times but only leave once.
>
> Please continue to get up at 4.30am. I didn't realise my postings were so
> eagerly awaited.
I often wake up with ideas. It's going to work that
gets in the way....
In Japan, it is (or used to be...) Autumn moon viewing time.
Here's a picture from my back yard, from yesterday evening. I do have
a gravel area (which is where I set up my camera), but, unfortunately,
the gravel is not Japanese dry garden (Ryoanji etc.) grade.
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/cgi-bin/vuImag3.pl?i=165
How's the Great British nut hunt going?
http://www.greatnuthunt.org.uk/
God save the Queen's hazel doormouses!
\brad mccormick
[Do you have any hedgehogs on your property?]
>
> Keith
>
> <<<<
> Keith Hudson wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > But any serious attempt at regime change in Iraq -- which Bush now seems
> > intent on despite what the UN may say -- will only produce a satrap of
> > America -- in effect a colony in the old-fashioned imperialist tradition.
> > Surely this would only screw up tensions within the other Islamic countries
> > to breaking point? And then what happens if there are further
> > demonstrations by the Western-seeking, frustrated young in Iran, Saudi
> > Arabia and the Arab Emirates? If the imams crack down hard, then America
> > would have to invade those countries, too, in order to ensure that further
> > Al Qaeda-type terrorist network don't develop.
>
> Empire building doesn't come without blood sweat and tears, but
> isn't it worth it?
>
> >
> > So far, America seems to be buying off Russia and China with diplomatic
> > sops, but how will they react if America enroaches even further into the
> > Middle East in order to protect its oil supplies? My guess is that America
> > has calculated that Russia will be no problem however strongly it protests.
> > After all, its armed forces are so demoralised that it's highly likely that
> > Russia's missile sites are so badly maintained that missiles would never
> > get off the ground.
>
> I'm not so sure they couldn't jerry-rig a couple. I believe it was
> the submarine K-19 where the crew did an absolutely amazing job of
> designing and implementing a RYO reactor coolant plumbing kludge which
> kept the vessel from blowing up, at the cost of ~only~ about 16 or
> was it 36 crewmen dying horrible deaths from radiation
> poisoning. I think the Ruskies could get a few ICBMs into the
> air to come down and detonate somewhere or other. It's that
> Zek spirit of enterprise!
>
> >
> > On the whole, though, China has not been objecting strongly. True, it seems
> > to have internal succession problems just at present which are distracting
> > its leadership but, given America's considerable help in getting China into
> > the WTO, one wonders whether or not there's some secret deal going on here.
> > America knows that China's armed forces and missile potential (increasingly
> > sophisticated) are certainly not demoralised, and China is going to need
> > increasing imports of Middle East oil in the coming years.
>
> Let's face it: There's still lebensraum between Mongolia and the
> line between [how did Churchill put it?] Trieste in the Adriatic and
> Stetin in the Baltic? China, today, just wants to secure its western
> frontiers.
>
> >
> > Meanwhile, Japan is flat on its back economically and unlikely to recover
> > for many years, if at all.
>
> I wonder about this. Are the Japanese young people getting high?
> Are the Japanese young people listening to MP3? If yes, then
> all's more or less well there. We live in a
> postindustrial world, don't we?
>
> > Western Europe (particularly Germany and Italy)
> > seems to be heading the same way pretty fast. In any case, neither have any
> > military clout. As to England . . . well, we've been a colony of America
> > ever since WWII and Blair will continue our sycophantic role with his usual
> > enthusiasm.
>
> Keith, we all trust that, if push comes to shove, once again,
> never before will so few have done so much for so many -- and
> at Bomber Command they will once again run the numbers and if
> not enough bombs fall in the target radius they'll enlarge the
> radius, and
> if they once again find that British airmen are dying at a
> higher rate than U.S. airmen due to British planes having
> smaller escape hatches, they will once again suppress
> this information to avoid possibly negatively affecting
> the morale of the British airmen
> (ref. Freeman Dyson, _Disturbing the Universe_).
>
> God save the Queen! (And wear your seat belt when you go
> to the store to buy that margarine with Princess Diana's
> picture on it if they still are making it!)
>
> \brad mccormick
>
> >
> > Keith Hudson
>
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