Comments on: D.C. flunks its reading test http://folobackup.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/dc-flunks-its-reading-test/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:48:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: lotus http://folobackup.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/dc-flunks-its-reading-test/#comment-127 lotus Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:59:33 +0000 http://www.folo.us/uncategorized/dc-flunks-its-reading-test/#comment-127 I should have been more specific than "Washington," op99. I know BushCo is hopeless, so I was really talking about Congress. Well, hell, they're hopeless too, aren't they? Nemmind. I should have been more specific than “Washington,” op99. I know BushCo is hopeless, so I was really talking about Congress.

Well, hell, they’re hopeless too, aren’t they? Nemmind.

]]> By: op99 http://folobackup.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/dc-flunks-its-reading-test/#comment-126 op99 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:45:09 +0000 http://www.folo.us/uncategorized/dc-flunks-its-reading-test/#comment-126 <i>So the shift-to-zoomies that means greater safety for our ground troops involves killing more innocent Iraqi bystanders — whose relatives hunger for vengeance and whose neighbors further doubt that Americans assure their safety: unless I’m much mistaken, a result the exact opposite of our announced aims.</i> But the true aims are nothing like the announced aims. Even though their ineptitude is making their secret aims harder to attain, in their calculus, leaving is still bad and staying is still good. And they are correct, vis a vis their secret aims. Now I abhor their secret hegemonic aims, but we are there til January 2009, and I fear far beyond. So the shift-to-zoomies that means greater safety for our ground troops involves killing more innocent Iraqi bystanders — whose relatives hunger for vengeance and whose neighbors further doubt that Americans assure their safety: unless I’m much mistaken, a result the exact opposite of our announced aims.

But the true aims are nothing like the announced aims. Even though their ineptitude is making their secret aims harder to attain, in their calculus, leaving is still bad and staying is still good. And they are correct, vis a vis their secret aims. Now I abhor their secret hegemonic aims, but we are there til January 2009, and I fear far beyond.

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