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Posted 8:53 PM by Hill
Making Headway Downward

There is unease here. It may be the time of day, the milieu, or it may just be my own paranoia. Everyone has paranoia these days. Things are so out of joint that we all pretend to go about our business and see nothing wrong. It’s like the elephant in the parlor, though. We all see it, but none of us will discuss it – at least, not very often. It’s September eleventh. We all saw it, we all went through it together, and now it’s frightened us out of our comfortable places. In fact, it may be more serious than that. It may be that there are no longer any comfortable places. We are beset by uncertainty and fear, even though the fear is a small, nameless and ill-considered fear. It’s difficult to feel much fear when the danger is so far away. It’s still at least as far away as the Post Office. Now the enemy, whoever they are, is threatening more accessible targets. It may be that the enemy has taken aim at our personal real estate as well. If the enemy has noticed us, then we may be dead meat. In other news, the Moroccans may have designs on Europe again. Some of them showed up in Rome, armed, so says the report with a gardening chemical that happens to be a cyanide compound. The Italian police confiscated the material, which when used by the enemy would have been enough to kill about 650 people, if the terrorists could have convinced each of the victims to eat seven grams of it. This would be on the order of a teaspoonful or so. Probably easier than sending a whole army, with the attendant supply, discipline and language problems. Nevertheless, unless the Moroccans have suddenly dropped thirty points off the average IQ in the country, there should be some deadlier ways to kill large numbers of people than talking them into eating seven grams of moderately toxic fertilizer additive.
Pakistan, having discovered that it couldn’t resist helping the U.S. against Afghanistan’s late and unlamented Taliban government, now wants America to puts its large and sometimes ill-guided foot into the problem with India. As if! Nobody playing with a full deck could believe that the U.S. isn’t already trying to lower everyone’s blood pressure along the shared border. Since neither country has said they will not use nukes if a war starts, they might both be determined enough to do it. Duck and cover. Good thing the enemy doesn’t have nukes, or the U.S. forces in Afghanistan would be toast, along with a few hundred thousand Afghans.
That’s one of the presenting problems here. These guys working for the enemy would have gladly sacrificed some Afghans (what the hell, they’re only Afghans – we’re the important ones). They would sacrifice themselves into the bargain, if they could kill Americans or other westerners. That’s sort of the marker that makes this situation different from situations in the past. The enemy has thousands of young men who are willing to sacrifice their own lives in order to murder the residents of a western country.
While the typical westerner thinks of war as something that is distasteful, violent, sweaty and done only as the last resort to keep from being overrun by an aggressor nation, the enemy thinks of war as something more or less coldly calculated and executed in the full knowledge that one will not survive it, but one’s ideals will. In addition, the war envisioned by these individuals employed by the enemy is something to be conducted in the lap of the west, where the women and children reside. This makes the enemy’s concept of war unique – it is planned in cold blood, executed by those who realize that their actions constitute suicide and whose only interest is either to destroy property or lives, preferably both, in the attempt. This is enough to think about right now. Don’t forget it; you’re going to need to remember it later.