I guess my point wasn't clear. I agree with Bill Mandel entirely that nuclear
annihilation is at the top of the "scaries" list. In fact, that' exactly what
I meant in citing "scarier than the Cuban Crisis". Tonight's CBS or NBC or
other bobbsie-twin broadcast news showed Bushie in SKorea, guards by a
dead-end railroad track ("a monument to dreams betrayed"[by NKorea, we are
supposed to feel]) and a vignette that today a NK guard defected to SK. We
are being set up for what? How do we "do" NKorea (it ain't Afghanistan--got
real weapons)? troops? bombs? whatkinda bombs? How is China, e.g., supposed
to react to that? . . . Well, and then what happens? Are we 1933 going on
1940 or what? And I still worry about the Newsweek or Time article that I
and several others remember from the 1980s about new fundamentalist Christian
power-players in Washington, who believed real-time Armageddon necessary, and
that Perle and, I think, Cheney, were in the article. I tried to locate it
on UC's online Gale Per. Index equivalent but maybe didn't know how, and
couldn't; some of you folks are academic researchers, maybe you can find it?
Meanwhile, back to today's 5-minute-hate, citizens.
Paula
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