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Sometimes I'll read something in the newspaper, or I'll hear something on the TV news that will strike a certain note and thus set off a chain reaction inside my head. When this happens I have to remind myelf to stop being silly. Obviously the news I'm hearing, or reading, can't mean what it appears to mean.
When I read about the Project for the New American Century in the following news report on the ABC News website I had to remind myself not to indulge in silly thinking:
In open letters to Clinton and GOP congressional leaders the next year, the group called for "the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power" and a shift toward a more assertive U.S. policy in the Middle East, including the use of force if necessary to unseat Saddam.
And in a report just before the 2000 election that would bring Bush to power, the group predicted that the shift would come about slowly, unless there were "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor."
That event came on Sept. 11, 2001. By that time, Cheney was vice president, Rumsfeld was secretary of defense, and Wolfowitz his deputy at the Pentagon.
You can probably imagine what sorts of cranky/weird thoughts this story inspired in me. But then I remembered not to think such things and took a deep breath and went out and bought a Grande Mocha Frap at Starbucks.
Then everything was better.
Phew!
When I read about the Project for the New American Century in the following news report on the ABC News website I had to remind myself not to indulge in silly thinking:
In open letters to Clinton and GOP congressional leaders the next year, the group called for "the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power" and a shift toward a more assertive U.S. policy in the Middle East, including the use of force if necessary to unseat Saddam.
And in a report just before the 2000 election that would bring Bush to power, the group predicted that the shift would come about slowly, unless there were "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor."
That event came on Sept. 11, 2001. By that time, Cheney was vice president, Rumsfeld was secretary of defense, and Wolfowitz his deputy at the Pentagon.
You can probably imagine what sorts of cranky/weird thoughts this story inspired in me. But then I remembered not to think such things and took a deep breath and went out and bought a Grande Mocha Frap at Starbucks.
Then everything was better.
Phew!
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