While folks are busy on other threads quoting such experienced war hands as George Bush or Howard Dean, I thought it might be instructive to offer an observation from the man who wrote the book on war:
“To win one hundred battles in one hundred wars is not the ultimate skill. To stop the enemy without fighting is the ultimate skill.”
–Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be announcing and discussing several up and coming projects. The first of them is that there is going to be a “Fallen Angel” trade paperback. It’ll be coming out in June of 2004. So for all those “I’m sitting on my hands until the trade comes out,” no excuses.
Still, there’s going to be enough of a time gap between the first trade and the next months of the series (issue #12 will be hitting the stands around the time of the trade collecting 1-6) that I’d still encourage people who aren’t already to sample the book. A new story arc between with #7, and personally, I think it buries the first one.
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Glenn and I, and hopefully everyone who reads this, extends condolences to Joe Quesada on the passing of his father after a long illness.
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I’m glad he’s been caught. I hope it leads to a slowing in the rate of our soldiers and Iraqi civilians being killed.
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Well, I hope President Gore’s happy now. He’s got a warm body to ensure his 2004 re-election bid, and proven that he’s muy macho than President George H.W. Bush. And it only took the deaths of hundreds of US soldiers and thousands of Iraqis to accomplish it.
As a right-thinking American, I can only shake my head at this travesty. After Gore’s utter failure at capturing bin Laden–and with the GOP rightly launching a two year investigation into his inability to prevent the 9/11 disaster (an investigation he tried to stonewall and then cut back to 18 months so the bad news wouldn’t hit right around the election; thank God the GOP saw through that obvious attempt)–he went after someone he *could* find. Concerned about the Iraqi people? Please. Oil, yes. Reelection, yes. The people? People in China and Saudi Arabi are treated just as badly if not worse, and those are our allies.
So he bamoozles Congress with tales of non-existent weapons of mass destruction. Saddam keeps telling the UN he doesn’t have them, and we insist he does. The valiant GOP tried to prevent an aggression that will verify every negative thing the world thinks about us, but the Democrats shove it through, so they won’t look like the weak-kneed, soft-on-crime-and-terrorist party they are. And now it’s nine months later, and we finally have in hand a dictator (with no WMDs, of course). And the joy of it for Gore is that 70% of America has such a short attention span that they think we’ve nailed the guy who was responsible for 9/11.
Say this for Gore: He’s mastered the knack for misdirection that he learned from his old boss, Clinton, whose fault 9/11 really was. Gotta give him that. This has been a masterful scam that P.T. Barnum would envy. Because Americans aren’t going to care about anything other than that We Caught A Bad Guy. The fact that we’ve fostered a brand new generation of terrorists while doing it, that we’ve squandered the international good will we had from 9/11 and put ourselves into record-setting debt doing it…none of that matters.
Let’s hope enough people see through Gore’s obvious deceptions. But somehow I doubt it.
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