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Wednesday, April 20, 2005

WW2 v. WOT -- ONE MONTH TO GO

1,347: Number of days from the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, to VJ Day (Victory in Japan) on August 15, 1945.

1,317: Number of days from the airplane-bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, to today.

If Osama makes it to May 21, he will have survived the self-declared world's only superpower in a presidentially-declared war longer than did Tojo, Hitler, and Mussolini working together.

It's pitiful that the current administration enjoys a stronger reputation on national security than the opposition party. Pitiful, outrageous, [your adjectives here].


UPDATE, May 1:

This post has by far gotten the most attention of anything I've put on the blog. In less than 3 weeks, Dubya's WOT will have gone longer than America's involvement in the Second World War. I don't think most Americans realize it.

At least two people (one of whom I don't know) emailed it to their personal list. These blogs have commented or linked to this post:

Digby's Hullaballoo
AlterNet
Equanimity
colinb at DailyKos
Corndoggerel
Sivacracy.Net
Past Peak
Seeing the Forest
aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south
Brilliant at Breakfast
sysrick.com
The Left Coaster
Musings
Bush Watch: Progressive News And Opinion
Comments:
Actually, the adjective that springs to my mind is "vomit-inducing." But at least we got that terrorist mastermind Saddam Hussein before he unleashed his WMD stockpiles on an unsuspecting world.
 
Of course, we used two atomic bombs to end WWII, but this is still a staggering observation.
 
WOT will last forever. Unless we end up nuking everyone. Then, at least, there'll be a time limit.

Mixter
 
When the Political-Appointee-in-Chief announced the War on Terror, my reaction was immediate: Designed never to end. Orwell's 1984: "We have always been at war with Oceana."

2nd reaction: Calling it a War gives the enemy an unwarranted legitimacy. Living in Seattle, I live near a lot of "legitimate" military targets. Of course, the Bush administration is made up of ardent linguistic Humpty-Dumpty-ists -- when they use a word, they think it means what they intend it to mean, no more, no less. Of course, Humpty-Dumpty was not only wrong about language, but he had a pretty freakin' catastrophic Great Fall.
 
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