tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post7412342580398945004..comments2024-03-27T11:10:52.382-07:00Comments on On My Mind: Tightroping the "Politics of Fear"Jayhawkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00756807802218022043noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post-37426553355222858432012-05-12T12:12:13.290-07:002012-05-12T12:12:13.290-07:00In all fairness, the agent in question would not h...In all fairness, the agent in question would not have gotten out alive if he had shot anyone within the cell. That might have mattered to him, if not to his handlers. And if Al Quaida in Arabia's operational security was half as good as I could dream up, there was at lest one intermediary getting the bomb from Al-Asiri & giving it to the nominal suicider/actual mole. <br />Further, if he had just shot the maker, we wouldn't have gotten the bomb. Which means someone else would have used it, bringing down a plane. And even if it hadn't worked, they would have know that, as well as whether or not it got through security. As it is, they don't know whether it would have done either of those things, while we eventually will.<br /><br />On the other hand, "Homeland Stupidity" tells us that we should be even "more afraid" of that bomb that "might have worked" than the pundits have implied. Unless you are an American, of course, in which case you should be very proud of your government's ability to invade your privacy. Because, as it turns out (surprise, surprise!) only our our invasions could have (oops, "probably would have") found it; unlike, say, every one else's, which definitely would (oops, "almost certainly not") have found it.<br />Right, sure -- we are so great, no one else is any good at all. If they're not the enemy then they're useless: that attitude bothers ME even more than our amorality!Arthurnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32512109.post-37098108055205613702012-05-09T09:29:18.388-07:002012-05-09T09:29:18.388-07:00and of course there's the ominous intonation o...and of course there's the ominous intonation of the dreaded 3am phone call and the opposition candidate doesn't have the stones to handle it.. Excuse me, where have we seen this before?<br /><br />Someone please put the above post into a political ad... it's amusing in its absurdity.brucenoreply@blogger.com