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August 10, 2008

Great Moments in Eerie Prescience, Dept. of the Ones that Got Away

The New England Patriots may have bitten off more than they can chew when they chose to take on my scout troop’s pickup team.

Pejman Yousefzadeh, Strategery Correspondent, Redstate.org

Via Jus de Ballon (Au Jus de Ballon in American).

Posted by Jim Henley @ 11:12 pm, Filed under: Main

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6 Responses to “Great Moments in Eerie Prescience, Dept. of the Ones that Got Away”

  1. Comment by joe —
    August 11, 2008 @ 9:34 am

    My gut tells me that the people at Redstate should have figured out that their guts aren’t terribly reliable by now.

  2. Comment by ajay —
    August 11, 2008 @ 10:48 am

    This is the argument that because Russia has a much bigger army and military budget than Georgia, it’s bound to win, right?

    How are things going in Afghanistan, by the way? You’d think we’d be done there by now. Especially since the Soviets did so well.

  3. Comment by radish —
    August 11, 2008 @ 6:30 pm

    Dude, you’re not supposed to put things inside blockquote tags unless they’re EXACT QUOTES!!!

    Apparently you are unaware of this internet tradition.

  4. Comment by Jared —
    August 11, 2008 @ 6:35 pm

    There are reasons to believe that the situation is not so one-sided as it appears. Or there were until Russia decided to get its Black Sea fleet involved, and target Georgian infrastructure outside South Ossetia, and bomb Tbilisi…

  5. Comment by Mojo —
    August 11, 2008 @ 11:09 pm

    How are things going in Afghanistan, by the way?
    The Taliban, the force with the vastly smaller military budget and army, went from complete control of all but a sliver of the country in the far north to occasionally controlling part of a province for a few days at a time. Meanwhile, the country with the larger military has maintained it’s puppet in power for several years while leaving only a remaining token force in place. I’m surprised you had to ask; it’s been in all the papers. Strangely, it turns out that armed conflicts are affected in some small fashion by arms.

  6. Comment by ajay —
    August 13, 2008 @ 5:39 am

    5: so, what you’re saying is that six years after the start of the war we haven’t actually won. That’s what I thought.

    (”Only a token force”. You utter bloody fool.)

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