but I never get to ask the followups I want to, dammit.
Amazingly enough, Diane asked some decent followup questions during the entire conversation; I was impressed.
So, according to the experts (whatever their qualifications; I should look that up) of course the US couldn't manage a ground force invasion of Iran, we're too busy in Iraq. Air strikes, sure. Supporting internal dissent, yes. (We're probably already doing this.) They would HOPE that Bush would ask the Congress for some sort of resolution. There is no military answer for Iran. We'd have to have 100% perfect intelligence because if we missed some, like the insurgents in Iraq, they'd just recreate elsewhere.
Well no shit, sherlock - there was no military answer for Iraq, either. That's why Bush's dad didn't follow Hussein in after freeing Kuwait - it's not that Saddam Hussein was that hard to take down; it's because of the ball of crap that Iraq becomes afterwards that Bush Sr. didn't want to step in.
Okay, and now on a totally shallow topic, I heard yesterday that Tom Cruise got fired. J & I talked about it, and agreed that he wasn't being fired because of his religion, but because his recent statements and behaviour have made it difficult for the studio to sell tickets. (Which is all Paramount cares about anyway; if you can't make them money, you're out.) Wonder if there will be a lawsuit anyway.
After his oh-so-educated comments about post-partum depression, I personally think he should be committed. I think the reason scientology says psychiatrists and psychologists are so bad and to stay away is because then some of the nutjobs that join the religion would get treatment and realize how fricking insane the whole set-up is.
Then again, (and I've said this before) when you compare the semi-socialist son of a Jewish carpenter being raised from the dead with thetans infesting your body to a god who talks out of a pillar of fire and likes you to cut up and burn choice parts of animals - who's craziest?
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
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3 comments:
On Iraq- Invading was retarded. It was and always will be a huge and unnecessary diversion of resources. That being said, it could have been done correctly. It would have required many many more troops, but we could have applied some basic counter-insurgency techniques and we would have dealt with the initial insurgency (Saddam loyalists and a few jihadis) quickly and kept the insurgency from sprouting nationalistic and sectarian offspring.
We didn't do this because the people in charge overruled military professionals out of an arrogance and ideology.
Now we're fucked.
As for Tom Cruise, I do know some actual Scientologists (they're not all fucknuts insane) and even they think that his behavior was totally inappropriate.
Oooo, I'm curious, what part of his behaviour does another Scientologist consider inappropriate? I mean, the couch bouncing love admissions I never saw, but I assume they were just exuberance, and I'll allow anybody a moment of crazy exuberance... him knocking her up before they were hitched is bad if you're Catholic; don't know how the Scientologists look at it... and the Brooke Shields thing seemed (from my very limited knowledge) textbook Scientology...
I agree with you on the Iraq thing - yes, if we had done it with a lot more troops and ones that were actually TRAINED in the peace-keeping stuff that comes after blowing people's heads off - it's a different mind set, ya know? Maybe stopping the looting immediately afterwards would have been a good initial sign that we a) gave a shit and b) had any fucking clue what to do to keep the country together now that we'd cut its head off. The planning for the post-Saddam period was woefully inadequate. (Do you think they actually had any plans? I'm beginning to think they actually didn't at all.)
I've heard rumblings that military professionals were overruled, but Bush keeps coming up with "Generals were given what they asked for" that I'm wondering if the military professionals wussed out and didn't ask for what they knew they needed because they didn't want to piss off the higher ups? Whatcha think?
The screaming and shouting at Matt Lauer, etc. Basically they tend to disagree with his behavior, not necessarily his views. Since (as I explained somewhere else I think) I don't care what sort of absurd bullshit people feel like believing themselves I let it go because they condemn the bad behavior and don't seem to want psychology and psychological drugs to banned or anything (they simply don't want to partake of such things themselves). I'm not sure if that's orthodox Scientology though (since they're a mystery cult, and as an aside thusly not to be trusted as an organization).
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