Re: Fwd: [Linux] OT - My thoughts on the matter

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> > Thought this was pretty good. Note: this material is highly "flammable."
> > I'm putting on my asbestos trousers already.
>
> Funny, was that "Timothy R. Butler" who replied with "Bravo" at
> http://astcomm.net/pipermail/linux/Week-of-Mon-20030901/004843.html you?

  How'd you guess? Seriously, if you look over the message, the issue at hand 
is America's short attention span. By attacking Iraq we have committed to 
stay there until the job is done, either by ourselves or through whatever 
other means we figure out.

  Obviously it is too late to argue about whether the conflict should happen, 
the main question now is whether we leave Iraq in chaos or we attempt to 
rebuild things for them (as we discussed a few weeks ago).

> But if you want to make stupid "took time" arguments, let me make the
> ultimate one: it would take less time for Russia's arsenal of nuclear
> weapons to turn the US into a wasteland for a long time (in human terms;
> short time in geological terms) than it took for Chris to write his
> brain-dead email.  So if doing things quickly is a good thing, then I
> suppose Chris would really be cheering if that happened, no?

  Hehe.

> I'm surprised he did not compare the time it took Germany to invade Poland,
> might have been more apropos than counting votes . . . .  And interestingly
> he took only examples about Democrats.  What a complete moron . . . .

  Hmm... I think of the Florida debacle as more of a bipartisan problem. At 
any rate, those things are several of the big issues that have caught 
America's attention over the past decade. We ought to be able to stay focused 
on Iraq for much longer.

  -Tim

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