Letters to the Editor
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Paging Dr. Strangelove...
Nice piece, Digby! Biogirl wrote...
What's with referring to the US as "the Homeland"? Does that sound vaguely sinister, or is just me?
I have the same reaction to it -- it IS creepy. Way too close to "The Fatherland" -- I always want to say "The Homeland" with a German accent, to get the right vibe and spirit behind it.
And speaking of vibes, what's up with the NIE and the Bush League's handling of it, anyway? They're trying to have it all ways. Let's see if I can sum it up:
The War in Iraq (and, by extension, the War on Terror at large) is keeping the Homeland safe from an enemy that is, unfortunately, a lot stronger and seemingly unaffected by our War on Terror, to the extent that they are apparently able to threaten the Homeland despite the War in Iraq, which must continue to be waged without hesitation, even as the effort fails to meet the majority of benchmarks, so that we can keep the Enemy(tm) from coming back home to attack us, which...err...they are apparently already able to do...and...uhhh...are supposedly imminently preparing to...do, despite our best efforts. In that holy spirit, we must be unwavering in our commitment to embrace the politics of failure, so we may then not experience the...uh...failure of politics to deliver us from evil, for Thine is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, Amen.
What next, are they going to assault our precious bodily fluids? We really need Dr. Strangelove to roll on in, sieg heiling, to properly capture the absurdity of this rogue administration's stance on, well, everything. I'm shocked and awed.