Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Peters on Obama

8 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Peters is back in the saddle, after losing it for a while a couple of years ago. When he talks about military matters with a straight head, he is quite knowledgeable.
..This one takes rope, not hope. Pirates must hang. ... Attack their harbors with land, sea and air power. Kill pirates, sink their vessels (including those dual-use fishing boats) and wreck their support infrastructure. The clans behind the pirates must feel sufficient pain to rein in their young thugs. The price for piracy should be stunning.

And we don't need to stay to rebuild Somalia. End the fix-it fetish now. We need to leave while their boats are still burning down to the waterline.
Of course. But try and communicate the concept to Pepe. It's like trying to explain the Schroedinger equation to him. Only harder.

Mr roT said...

I thought it was Schrödinger. Do I have to teach you how to make an umlaut?

Mr roT said...

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Tecumseh said...

ö=oe. At least at the IAS.

Mr roT said...

There's an interesting about that, I think.

Tecumseh said...

Grammar, Mr Rot, grammar is essential to understanding.

Mr roT said...

Not a grammar issue. Dropped a word. I meant to write that there's an interesting story about how the umlaut came to be added to the Roman alphabet by the barbarians.

Tecumseh said...

Dropping a word affects very negatively the structure of a sentence (thereby its grammar), making such a mangled sentence potentially unreadable.

That said, now you caught my attention: what's the story of the umlaut? I never thought of checking on that.