Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Don't worry, says Rot, doing the tomahawk chop

Q: What sort of world do we live in where America's enemies live in more fear of the French than of us? Ahem.
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Tecumseh said...

Curiouser and curiouser:

A Qaddafi left armed and dangerous when the dust settles is an unacceptable outcome. Civilian planes will likely start failing out the sky, as did the one over Lockerbie; assassination attempts will multiply, like the attempted Libyan-backed murder of the Saudi king in 2003; al-Qaeda and affiliates might be aided and abetted to do Lord-knows-what to the Italians, the French, the British and, of course, to us. With nothing to lose, and way beyond the threshold of worrying about sanctions and such, Qaddafi could well become more dangerous than ever. If I were Silvio Berlusconi, in particular, I’d pick my future whorehouses with extreme care.

3/23/2011 6:06 PM
Tecumseh said...

It stands to reason that a responsible, serious government will have thought about all this in advance, and come up with some plan for the post-combat “Phase IV” of the Libyan War, right? Not on your life; the President and his war council almost certainly have not even begun to think about this sort of thing, because they’re still in denial that it could happen. This is, after all, just a limited, humanitarian mission as far as they’re concerned. They don’t realize it yet, but these guys are on a path to make even Donny Rumsfeld and Tommy Franks look good—and you thought that was impossible.

Mais non, mais non, says Pepe. It's all peaches and roses.

3/23/2011 6:09 PM
Mr roT said...

Oops! Did Mullen think of this possibility?

3/23/2011 6:09 PM
Tecumseh said...

Before we started this crazy war, what was going on in the region was all about the Arabs—the good Arabs, the bad Arabs, the other Arabs, all the Arabs, some of the Arabs, whatever. In both their eyes and ours, it was about them. Now it is, or will soon be, about us. Every quark’s worth of negative energy in the region will in due course be drawn as if by a magnet to us, as the Arabs resume their favorite sport of exporting responsibility for their own circumstances onto others. We will subject the region, yet again, to the equivalent of the U.S. Heisenberg Effect, especially if we’re forced to bail out our allies. We’ve seen this film before. It’s a tragedy.

It's all Schrödinger's cat fault!!!

3/23/2011 6:11 PM
Mr roT said...

The Heisenberg effect?

Why haven't I heard of that? Am I one grebe shy of a principal bundle?

3/23/2011 6:14 PM
Tecumseh said...

Gerbe, Herr Rot, gerbe! Tsk, tsk, tsk, when are you gonna learn the proper cd terminology?

At any rate, pretty good nocon analysis, I'd say.

3/23/2011 6:17 PM
Tecumseh said...

VDH not happy. Duhhh...

3/23/2011 6:32 PM
Tecumseh said...

Bottom line: Add the above up, and I think Team Obama will find that even Democratic diehards and neocon sympathizers will soon bail, and very soon. Like it or not, to salvage this mess, the Obama administration is going to have to get rid of Qaddafi, do it very quickly, and argue that what follows is somewhat better. Well, duhhh...

3/23/2011 6:35 PM
Mr roT said...

What's wrong with grebes, Tecs? You closed-minded about new ideas in math?

3/23/2011 9:29 PM
Tecumseh said...

Podicipedidae bundle?

3/23/2011 9:46 PM
Mr roT said...

Extant species range in size from the Least Grebe, at 120 grams (4.3 oz) and 23.5 cm (9.3 inches), to the Great Grebe, at 1.7 kg (3.8 lbs) and 71 cm (28 inches).

\begin{prop} $\inf grebe < \sup grebe$.\end{prop}

3/23/2011 9:50 PM
Tecumseh said...

\begin{snideremark} Rotter theorem is trivial. \end{snideremark}

3/23/2011 9:54 PM
Mr roT said...

Not at all. Grebes could be constant.

Pay up.

3/23/2011 9:55 PM
Tecumseh said...

Nothing is (quite) constant.

3/23/2011 9:59 PM
Mr roT said...

Tecs gets the vapors.

3/23/2011 10:32 PM

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