Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Iranaphobia.

This evening as I was driving home from the market (and no, Miz C, I didn't get hit on once -- maybe because I wasn't wielding a box of Tampax?), I heard Terry Gross interviewing Seymour Hersh about U.S. plans to invade Iran.

Think it won't happen, that we don't have enough troops to stage a third front? Hersh points out that "we" don't need troops -- it'll be a brief air assault, forceful but not devastating. "Here's what we can do to you," it'll say. "You can back off your nukes, or you can watch us come back and finish the job."

Meanwhile the Dems apparently are so surprised to be in charge that they can't get their shit together long enough to put an alternative proposal on the table. Can we survive two more years of this?

You can listen to the "Fresh Air" interview here. Or read Hersh's piece in this week's New Yorker here.

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Listening to Terry Gross led me to this evening's entertainment as she tossed in a brief interview linked to tonight's episode of "Frontline" on PBS. Part of a series called "News War," it looks at how newspapers are dumping their foreign correspondents because it's too "costly" to cover the world. That we'll soon be down to three monopolies covering the world: the Times, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. God help us.

"Frontline" comes on at 9 in this 'hood, so if you read this in the next hour, you have time to check it out, too. Or check it out here.

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Currently listening to: Martin Sexton (thanks, Juggler!)

Currently reading: "No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late" by Ayun Halliday

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4 comments:

Krista said...

all hail the power of a box of tampax!!! all hail!

Anonymous said...

Scary. The tampons? Hmm. That too. That always seems to be the case (maybe I should just spend a week walking around with a box to see what I'll attract) But I meant invading Iran. What a mess my senator will be left with coming in.

Lincoln Writer said...

Yeah, the gentleman from Illinois will have much cleanup on Aisle 12. Hope he starts talking -- soon -- about a *concrete* plan.

BlankPhotog said...

Thankfully tampons aren't made of concrete.

I heard someone on Democracy Now this afternoon talking about Cheney's belief that if Iran gets a nuke, they'll give it to Hezbollah which has elements working in America, thus putting America directly at risk (in his belief system).

Personally I'm wondering if humans have it in them to avoid exploding a nuclear explosive again, but I'm not thinking it will be Muslim humans. Not that it matters...