tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post116991906620371252..comments2024-03-27T14:07:52.573+00:00Comments on Who Would Have Believed The Singularity Would Be So Stupid?: "Hurray! We're Capitulating!"Pastoriushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169561459129778670noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-1169944515324747572007-01-28T00:35:00.000+00:002007-01-28T00:35:00.000+00:00"The foreign minister of Luxembourg wasn't just sp...<I>"The foreign minister of Luxembourg wasn't just speaking for his own country when he said that the entire affair was 'more a Danish than a European problem.'"</I><BR/><BR/>How does that go? "First they came for the Danes, and I was not a Dane, so I did not object...."<BR/><BR/>I prefer this one:<BR/><BR/><I>We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.</I><BR/>Benjamin FranklinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-1169920985101495702007-01-27T18:03:00.000+00:002007-01-27T18:03:00.000+00:00Dang, I swear I can't walk and chew gum at the sam...Dang, I swear I can't walk and chew gum at the same time. Pastorius, I'm going to need a short email course on how to put up the links while blogging, but right now I'm limping around the house on a badly sprained ankle trying to get all the Saturday chores done.<BR/><BR/>What this is leading up to is, for an excellent companion piece to Broder's, check out http://neo-neocon.blogspot.com/ and scroll down to January 25 for "Defeatism feels so good -- for now". Both articles support my contention that the West will not really get on the stick until things get so bad they cannot possibly be ignored -- which will, of course, make the fight much more difficult. Also, that you can't "nation-build" a defeated enemy until said enemy knows he has been Defeated. See: Germany, Japan, 1945-ish.revereridesagainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13443013401059011056noreply@blogger.com