[Osx-nutters] Extremist Envy

[Kevin Callahan]

On Sep 30, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Chris Gehlker wrote:

> There are some interesting excerpts from an interview with Rumsfeld  
> here:
> <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15075326/site/newsweek/>
> "We’re dealing with enemies that can turn inside our decision  
> circles.” The enemy can move swiftly, he said. “They don’t have  
> parliaments and bureaucracies and real estate to defend and  
> interact with or deal with or cope with. They can do what they  
> want. They aren’t held accountable for lying or for killing  
> innocent men, women and children.
>
> “There’s something about the body politic in the United States that  
> they can accept the enemy killing innocent men, women and children  
> and cutting off people’s heads, but have zero tolerance for some  
> soldier who does something he shouldn’t do.”
>
> --
> The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a  
> proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and  
> oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
> -Paul Valery, poet and philosopher (1871-1945)
>

Rumsfeld is fucked