From our friends at Time Magazine
The Pentagon, which is calling for the largest defense budget since the cold war, has been floating scary threats lately. TIME has obtained a copy of a PowerPoint presentation that senior officers have been showing to groups around the U.S. warning that failure to stop Osama bin Laden and his ilk would have the same "consequences" as Europe's appeasement of the Nazis before World War II. Bullet points describe possible U.S. economic depression and Washington being forced into an "accommodation" with terrorists. Skeptics question the timing of such predictions. Says security analyst John Pike: "The Pentagon has a long tradition of dialing up the threat to get more dollars at budget time."
It's simultaneously saddening and heartening to see that while neither our government nor our "elites" seem capable of grasping the scope of this war and fighting the informational battles, guys like Fred, Wretchard, Zombie (whose latest photo-essay on Mohammed iconography is being widely plagarized by MSM reporters), and Charles Johnson are winning the battles largely on their own dime and on their own time. To the idiots who wrote this piece, it's still all about triangulation and manipulation. "Wag the Dog, right? Those silly officers can't fool us Columbia J-school grads." I don't say this out of flattery, but when this is over, Fred, and the others I named deserve a Presidential Medal of Freedom. I don't believe in karma, so I don't know what will happen to the Time writers, but I hope it isn't pleasant. |