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Dire winds, but I sense a strange lack of disturbance in the force.
Too many people have forgotten the true danger of nuclear weapons. It is not that terrorists will (yes, will - no matter how we struggle against it, someone, sometime will get the materials or a preassembled bomb) flatten a city. No, the truly terrible thing is that we are never more than thirty minutes away from the end of modern ...
Posted to The Spectator by ked on August 31, 2007
careful with those literary references
''Blair is not a wild-eyed Cassandra raising unsupported suspicions.'' Do Aeschylus some justice: Cassandra's curse for failing to bear Apollo a child was to tell the truth but never to be believed. She foretells in gruesome detail the murder of Agamemnon, as she had foretold the fall of Troy, but she was not believed in either ...
Posted to The Spectator by Joe M. on August 31, 2007