While The World Waits
Iran is set to make a proposal on the nuclear front today, while I believe it's become popular in the wingnutosphere to believe that we'll see a massive Iran-backed terrorist attack today. A more reasonable -- though quite pessimistic -- take on US-Iranian relations is provided by Brian Ulrich's review of Ali Ansari's Confronting Iran.
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three things i'm curious about. one, how many terrorist attacks have coincided with any major islamic calendar event? i bet it's a ton, since the sheer number in the past couple of years has meant there's been more than two a day.
why do these people think they would attack us on one of their holidays? what would be the ultimate logic of that? i mean, i would suppose there are a slew of operational reasons why locking themselves into the third moon of ramadan would be impractical, and beyond that, wouldn't it be a great deal more effective to do this on an arbitrarily chosen date? you know, preserve the element of surprise. or better yet, why not on one of OUR holidays? wouldn't shitting on our picnic be a great deal more satisfying than shitting on one of their own?
and third, where do these people get their hermetically-sealed diapers? i would think that by now their basements would be overpowering.
August 22, 2006 7:05 AM | Reply | Permalink