Exactly -- WMD in the hands of Islamics is madness. WMD in the hands of a military regime is dangerous. WMD in the hands of a Islamic fascist regime (note Mushie ain't quite the loonie islamic fundie but hie army is heavily infiltrated with Islamic fundamentalists -- that was hte policy of hte former Presidente for life: Zia Huqq)is...... well, you get the picture. It's getting longer and longer odds against our reestablishing containment, and keeping nuclear weapons away from Al-Q'aeda.
I keep remembering a translation of Nostradamus I once saw, back when he was momentarily the rage, during the Gulf War, about his third great tyrant, the one who would succeed Napoleon and the Second Great Tyrant. It was Josef Goebbels's wife, IIRC, who pointed out a quatrain in Nostradamus about the Second Great Tyrant, and named him: "Hister". So very close.......
But the Third Great Tyrant he called "the man in the blue turban", and it seemed that he attacked many countries. Reading Nostradamus is like reading mud, so that anyone who wants to can have a go -- all he needs is a PhD equivalent in French, and especially in Middle French, and he is ready to begin translating. More or less.
Well, Nostradamus and a dollar will get you a decent cup of coffee, but I can't help but wonder if the old guy didn't see something. Especially after Frau Goebbels's call.
I think it's pretty long odds against us and the President's effort to keep one or more of our big cities from getting nailed with a nuclear or biological weapon.
I hope the President succeeds and we win. But the odds don't look that hot right now.
Of course there are long odds against us. That is where deterrence comes in. I am quite sure that we have told the Arab League states in private that it is in their interest to kill Al Qaeda. If they fail, we will kill them. In a day.
It was Steven den Beste who pointed out that this war will end in one of two ways; with America triumphant and the Arab world making progress towards representative government, or with American triumphant and the Arab world obliterated by a retaliatory barrage of thermonuclear warheads.
The Arabs know this. It is why they are afraid.
Oh, and AQ? Trust me on this. The Saudis will negotiate with the Israelis to clean up this little matter.
Be Seeing You,
Chris