- The piece also tells you about AQI — al Qaeda in Iraq — whose members “brazenly made Anbar province a home base and slaughter pad with their marketplace car bombs, beheadings, and reputation for hiding bombs intended to kill parents in the corpses of dead children they’d gutted.” Do remember what al Qaeda is.
- Did you read this yesterday? “Suspected Sunni insurgents bombed and badly damaged a span over the main north-south highway leading from Baghdad,” making it “the third bridge attack in as many days in an apparent campaign against key transportation arteries.”And did you read this Victor Davis Hanson piece from last week? (It is superb, and typically so.) VDH: “Money and know-how can rebuild Iraq along the designs of Western material society — but that only makes it more vulnerable as a single transformer blown up or a pylon brought down can suddenly take away the newly found improved life.”And not only can “a suicide bomber with a $100 vest” destroy “$1 million worth of electrical infrastructure.” In a “gruesome equation,” he can “cast the American engineers into the role of the incompetent or sinister by their failure to repair and rebuild faster than an illiterate can destroy.”That is one of the devilish challenges of Iraq, and like situations. (I think of the Shining Path and Peru, about which I wrote last year.) (Here.)
If you don't know who Victor Davis Hanson is, get to know him. He is an amazing thinker and comes up with some of the most intelligent pieces you will ever read. There is so much that the mainstream media doesn't report on. They grossly underplay how evil terrorism is, how much success we are having, how important it is for us to be there, and highly overplay our setbacks and the difficulty of the mission.
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I quote the immortal words of "War...huh!...good god!...huh...what is it good for?! Absolutely nuthin!"
Also, when you wrote the word Transformer, it made me think of the real Transformers. Few people know that we can learn much from Optimus Prime and Megatron's feud. They went into civil war on their own planet many years ago. Having destroyed their own planet as a result of their unreasonable discord, they moved on to planet earth and instead of learing from thier planet's destruction have chosen instead to continue the fight here while placing innocent humans in danger of deadly fallout from their continuous conflicts.
Nobody knows why they started the war on their own planet. Rumor has it that the Autobots owned a popular football franchise that the Deceptecons took away from them; moving it to the northern part of that state. But again... this is just rumored.
Some say the Autobots grew a beard and still live here today. But that's a damn lie!
What can we learn from Transformers? Well, as a kid I learned not to take rides home from strangers and to have my parents check my Halloween candy before eating it. We, however, can learn that conflicts that destroy planets and force innocent boom boxes to change into robotic eagles with baby screaming cassette tapes is nothing but trouble. Of course, we must also admire their resolve in continuing such a dangerous battle of good vs. evil.
Needless to say, I am kind of excited about the documentary that will be played in theatres very soon. You may think that's childish and dorky. You may be right. But one thing's for sure, Silvs and I will be there. And if they make a movie about He-Man, G.I. Joe, Thunder Cats, or to a lesser extent, My Little Pony, I'll be there too.
Best comment ever. Did you wikipedia that beginning info on the transformers? My favorite was, "innocent boomboxes"...classic. That's why I'm friends with that guy.
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