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If one feels so strongly about premature comments, perhaps one should write one’s blog offline and only push it live at 10 PM? Just a thought.
Oct. 22nd, 2003
This post is pretty much for Patrick. Others may be amused as well.
Chapter 11 of Dan Simmons’ new book, Hard Freeze, starts like this:
“How’s the book?” asked Kurtz. He squinted at the title. “Isn’t that the same guy you were reading twelve years ago, before I got sent away?”
“Yeah. His detective fought in the Korean War, which makes the old fart in his late sixties at least, but he still kicks ass. A new book comes out every year, if not sooner.”
“Good, huh?”
“Not anymore,” said Arlene. “The P.I.’s got a girlfriend who’s a real bitch. An arrogant piece of work. And she’s got a dog.”
“So?”
“A dog who eats on the table and sleeps in their bed. And the P.I. loves them both to bits.”
“Then why do you keep reading them?”
“I keep hoping the P.I. will wake up and cap both the girlfriend and that ratty dog,” said Arlene.
I’m not sure what I think about Pakistan providing nukes to Saudi Arabia, other than that I can’t be sure if the article is even accurate. One anonymous source is a thin reed.
You could claim that this is the result of recent Israeli saber-rattling, but really, it’s not. It’d be more accurate to claim that a nuclear Israel will inevitably encourage other Middle Eastern countries to get the bomb.
And, of course, a US-occupied Iraq changes the balance of power in the Middle East. This sort of thing is an inevitable consequence. It’s not clear that it’s an unacceptable consequence; Saudi Arabia with nukes is hardly the end of the world. But this move certainly shouldn’t be unexpected.
Or possibly the Saudi/Pakistan nuke story is completely untrue.
We can still invade, though.
Hm. On further thought… why would Israeli intelligence want to spread that story? The implications are unpleasant. Not that I’m saying I don’t think Israeli intelligence would do that, it’s just worrisome. Weren’t we supposed to be stabilizing the Middle East?