Then the neocons would have to cook up some phony intelligence reports showing that tornados spawned by Saddam and Katrina met secretly over the Prague Airport and plotted to blow away Biloxi. And Condi Rice would have to go before the UN Security Council and recite a CIA fantasy script about the Indian Ocean’s secret thunderbolts of death, and the chemical weapons trailers hidden in the eye of Cyclone Saddam.
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September 7, 2005
WB: Dead or Alive
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Looks like Flat Friedman just made a 180 degree turn on Bush. And he is angry:
Osama and Katrina
If the Bush-Cheney team seemed to be the right guys to deal with Osama, they seem exactly the wrong guys to deal with Katrina – and all the rot and misplaced priorities it’s exposed here at home.
These are people so much better at inflicting pain than feeling it, so much better at taking things apart than putting them together, so much better at defending “intelligent design” as a theology than practicing it as a policy.
This Billmon post is eerily reminiscent of Fafblog’s piecefrom Monday:
This is a Global War on Weather and like any successful war it can’t be won on the defensive. If we spend all our time reacting to hurricanes instead of attacking them where they live, we will only embolden further hurricanes! The only language hurricanes understand is force – and possibly hurricanese, which is difficult to learn and involves the use of many glottal stops. We must fight nature where it lives so it can’t fight us at home!
Posted by: None right now | Sep 7 2005 9:24 utc | 2
Are there any votes to be gained out of a war on weatha?
Billmon, don’t give them ideas. It even alliterates.
Posted by: teuton | Sep 7 2005 9:47 utc | 3
The “war on tides” in “Dead or Alive” reminds me of the Roman Emperor Caligula’s battle with Poseidon, Roman god of the sea. It was described in Robert Graves “I, Claudius” and certainly in near-contemporary histories (Lives of the Emperors?).
Caligula brings a massive army to the seashore, then rides out onto a pier and tosses a few spears into the water, thus defeating Poseidon. I’m sure the Roman press was out in full force to record the event, and relay the “resolve” of Caligula against this long-time foe of Rome.
Posted by: meander | Sep 7 2005 15:39 utc | 4
Experts suggest that going nucular on a hurricane would be a waste of time. Then again, what do experts know?
Posted by: dr2chase | Sep 7 2005 20:38 utc | 6
Loved the commentary! Couldn’t have said it better myself! 🙂
Posted by: Jenifer D. | Sep 8 2005 2:25 utc | 7