The Paranoid Creed
If you had to boil it down, I’d say that
Once you know what to look for, the pieces fall into place with disturbing ease.
would do nicely. Bonus autosatirical points for the sentence that immediately follows:
Of course, most of these events have alternative, benign explanations: Maybe Gen. Zhu is an eccentric old coot who’s seen Dr. Strangelove a few too many times.
Someone sure has. Via Gene Healy, who laments that “D.C. is a town where you can’t get laughed off the stage.”
Comment by Nell —
July 30, 2005 @ 10:07 am
Not just not laughed off the stage — a freaking ’senior fellow’ at the Council on Foreign Relations! The limits of permissible, “respectable” discussion have moved so far to the right that I can barely see them from over here.
Comment by washerdreyer —
August 1, 2005 @ 1:45 am
Wait, that’s not the kind of problem the Pentagon is set up to combat? Has anyone told the Pentagon this?
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