It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of
a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into
privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing
algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the
planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times. Let's put this one in the "what the hell were they thinking?!?" pile:Reuters is reporting today that the Bush Administration has decided to get advice from Israel about how to use military units to quash Arab insurgents. Hm. All right, put aside for a moment your personal opinions about the state of Israel and ask this basic operational question: Has Israeli actually quashed their own Arab insurgents? The obvious answer is, um, gosh, NO. George W. Bush asking the Israelis for advice on how to deal with the insurgents in Iraq is as profoundly stupid as it would be for Howard Dean to call up Michael Dukakis and ask him how to run a presidential campaign. Howard Dean is smart enough not to ask miserable failures for advice, but Mr. Bush doesn't appear to have summoned enough brain cells to figure out this basic principle of life. Making failed military strategy on the basis of political ideology: Yet another reason to give Bush the boot in 2004. Return to the Irregular Times Main Page
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