From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sat Apr 06 2002 - 01:49:30 MST
dwayne wrote:
> spike66 wrote:
> > The Palestinians and the Israelis are starting world war 4.
>
> Aha, that's right.
> Wow, I must have been to a *really good party* the night before World War 3
> started.
> Who won?
It only takes me a few seconds to infer that by Spike's lights, WWIII was the
Cold War. In the popular theory, NATO / USA won because the FSU broke up, the
Berlin Wall came down, Germany reunified, etc., etc.
Given that, if you want to figure out which party you were at: Where were you
when Russia started rolling into Poland? When Churchill delivered his "Iron
Curtain" speech? Or when the Wall went up? It was somewhere in there. If you
weren't born yet, I can understand why you might have missed it.
> > Its
> > tragic as hell to me that this evidently cannot be stopped. No
> > one seems to be listening to
> > the
> > U.S. opinion.
>
> Why should they?
[puts on Daffy Duck act:] Ah-HA! _Article_ trouble! There _is_ no "_the_" US
opinion.
I'd say "It's tragic as hell...[that]...no one [in Palestine] seems to [have
listened] to the last proposed Palestinian statehood proposal." And it's
tragic as hell that things have come to such a pass.
There's a line from some action flick whose title escapes me: "This is a
situation that needs to get UN-fucked RIGHT NOW!" That's the magic of
Hollywood for you.
Out here, this fish soup has a long way to go before it becomes an aquarium.
MMB
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