[lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete's Role Reversal
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:58:24 -0500
EY [imagining Mike Chase as a reluctant or dissident terrorist]:
All the other terrorists would go "Huh?" and do a double-take.
It'd be time to drug you and chain you inside a truck full of
explosives (with a remote detonation switch in case you chicken
out)and set you rolling toward the Green Zone and your 70 virgins.
JE: They would? You seem very sure of that.
EY: Soldiers in Iraq report that:
"... you can never be sure whether the prospective martyr will
actually martyr himself when it comes to the crunch, but as this
story shows, there is only so much you can do to double-guess
him -Â you can chain the suicide-bomber-to-be to the car seat and
tape his hand to the steering wheel, which might ensure the
unbroken connection between the driver and his load, but will
unduly restrict his movements and reflexes; you can put in a
remote control detonator under his seat, just in case he changes
his mind, but the chances are it will be radio-jammed by the
Americans anyway; and you can also drug the martyr up to his
eyeballs."
"We can probably expect more drugged foreigners handcuffed to
steering wheels, now that Al Zarqawi has really taken to hitting
such hard military targets like pensioners queuing up at the bank
for their fortnightly cheques."
http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/2005/06/driving-under-influence.html
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