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.


Two Wars Unwon
Thursday, January 29, 2004
 
The headline today is of something that's getting to be old news, sort of.

Seven American soldiers killed ... ... ... in Afghanistan.

Yeah, you read that right - Afghanistan, where American soldiers are still trying to defeat the Taliban for good, and where nobody has any idea where the heck Osama Bin Laden is, still, or the former leader of Afghanistan either. The American military is still struggling to control the country, and soldiers are being shot at, wounded and killed all the time.

So here's the simple math for George W. Bush: Four years, two wars, zero victories.

I'll add in a free qualitative item as well: These two quagmires are getting more mirey every minute.

Posted by J. Clifford Cook at 8:29 PM. # (permalink)




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