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Feb. 14th, 2003 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saint_monkeyon the way home from dropping mystery off at school.
i noticed a bumpersticker on the back of a car in front of me
it said:
woah! i never thought of that! that completely diffuses the "economy" argument against the war! let's piss away economic recovery on the off chance that some enemy rogue faction manages to cobble together pinball machine parts and play-doh into a NUKE! i'd much rather have security against a theoretical possibility that is more actually a practical impossibility than a JOB. (the most likely domestic attack against the continental US is a chemical attack. the bush administration is doing very little to help with that, they are cutting the aid clinton gave to police forces and emergency services, and these would be the real front lines in a domestic attack. they seem to be addressing placebos for the public mind, like playing to the duct tape lobby. folks, i can't think of a more ironic "fix" to fears of a CBE attack... did jeff fozworthy come up with this? duct tape fixes a CBE attack like it fixes plumbing. it doesn't. which agent are we talking? is it lighter or heavier than air? where are the p-bromide pills and atropine injectors? no, just slap some duct tape over your head, you'll be fine.) Our friends are more likely to nuke us than our enemies, especially if we drag the world economy into the toilet with a war that nobody except our deranged gunslinger of a president wants!
i noticed a bumpersticker on the back of a car in front of me
it said:
think of how bad the economy would be if we allow ourselves to be nuked by our enemies.
woah! i never thought of that! that completely diffuses the "economy" argument against the war! let's piss away economic recovery on the off chance that some enemy rogue faction manages to cobble together pinball machine parts and play-doh into a NUKE! i'd much rather have security against a theoretical possibility that is more actually a practical impossibility than a JOB. (the most likely domestic attack against the continental US is a chemical attack. the bush administration is doing very little to help with that, they are cutting the aid clinton gave to police forces and emergency services, and these would be the real front lines in a domestic attack. they seem to be addressing placebos for the public mind, like playing to the duct tape lobby. folks, i can't think of a more ironic "fix" to fears of a CBE attack... did jeff fozworthy come up with this? duct tape fixes a CBE attack like it fixes plumbing. it doesn't. which agent are we talking? is it lighter or heavier than air? where are the p-bromide pills and atropine injectors? no, just slap some duct tape over your head, you'll be fine.) Our friends are more likely to nuke us than our enemies, especially if we drag the world economy into the toilet with a war that nobody except our deranged gunslinger of a president wants!
