The Comical - Cont'd
I couldn't decide whether to put this post here or over on Reductio because it deals with politics, but ultimately I decided it should go here because the Comical is too retarded to ridicule on a website that is serious about politics.
See, Callie sent me this Comical editorial this morning.
It's hard to know where to begin. She called my attention to the conclusion:
As a first step, the president might acknowledge that one or more of his closest national security advisers is less knowledgeable and perceptive than many U.S. diplomats at the State Department and in the field. Then the president can turn to restoring the United States' stature in the world that has ebbed since the weeks following Sept. 11, 2001.It's an odd conclusion, since it doesn't really follow from anything actually laid out earlier. To which national security advisors is it referring? And why are the diplomats more knowledgeable and perceptive? What is the *ahem* evidence behind this proposition?
Maybe it's in another editorial, and the Comical's editors just got confused, starting hitting cut and paste, and everything went to hell. Or maybe they've turned the baboons loose again. Hard to say.
I like the fifth paragraph:
Whatever its fallout, the dispute over African uranium usefully demonstrates the difference between military intelligence and actual knowledge. You can't rely on military intelligence. Lacking certainty, intelligence is a slim reed upon which to hang a war of pre-emption.
But then, in paragraph eight, the editors loosen up:
Left to his own devices, the Iraqi dictator no doubt would have pursued nuclear, germ and chemical weapons. He was aggressive against his neighbors in the past and might have been again.No doubt? If there is no doubt, then the fifth paragraph should not have been included in the editorial! If there is "no doubt" about something (paragraph eight), then it is not "lacking certainty" (paragraph five). Both cannot be true! A is A (sorry, had to work it in).
Except at the Comical.
Seriously, do they even read this shite before they ship it out to the homeless people to sell on the streets?
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 07/18/03 18:27 | Houston | Technorati
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