> [Original Message] > From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 11/14/2005 8:32:59 AM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Willie Pete's Role Reversal > > The U.S. Invading Iraq really taught those potential terrorists a > thing or two. It was good old fashioned police work that caught > them. > > No, Andy, it was good new Australian counterintelligence that > caught them. The police are out directing traffic. > Whatever. It's good old fashioned counterintelligence that caught them. Not the soldiers in Iraq. > Sometimes I think "Andy" is a computer program. This imagined > "Andy" browses posts for key words which then trigger scripts > that choose among options like: > > 1. Bush is evil and stupid, as is everyone remotely associated > with him. > He and his cronies definitely got suckered into something they can't get out of. > 2. Americans are stupid, incompetent at everything, and we are > all doomed. > Like when I was told I support suicide bombings. > I wouldn't mind this too much if he didn't go out of his way to > misread my posts, and turn them into occasions to repeat the same > (1) and (2)points above. > Your point that I so misread was that our boys over there are good boys and they'd never hurt anybody on purpose and the insurgents target civilians. When civilians and insurgents are indistinguishable, it becomes a philosophical discussion about intentions. In reality, civilians die at American hands. > Then there is the other "Andy," who proves he is not a computer > program by posting interesting comments and links and riling people. > > Hmm. Maybe he only runs the "Andy" program when he is otherwise > occupied overseeing the extensive grounds of his palatial estate > at Amago-on-Hudson. When he's outside in jodhpur breeches, > selecting which Arabian stallion to ride, the "Andy" program is > on, letting us know that--no matter what we write--it boils down > to (1) and (2) above. > Eric, your talent is amazing. But in situations like this, when you use it instead of facts and reality, well, what can I say. Regarding my other question about would you go to Iraq if that was the condition on which that war would be waged, I can't blame, you, I wouldn't go either. And, guess what? We wouldn't be in this mess with no way out and be safer and stronger in the bargain. Andy Amago > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html