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I think before anyone from the Pentagon is allowed to even think about invading a desert again, we have to make them read the entire Dune saga. I realize only t
by M_Grey 10y ago
I think before anyone from the Pentagon is allowed to even think about invading a desert again, we have to make them read the entire Dune saga. I realize only the first one matters in this case, the rest is for punishment.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> I think before anyone from the Pentagon is allowed to even think about invading a desert again, we have to make them read the entire Dune saga. I realize only the first one matters in this case, the rest is for punishment. AFAICT, the people "from the Pentagon" (and particularly, the career military types, including the senior uniformed leadership) were generally very well locked into what the issues were; the political leadership (much of it outside the Pentagon) far less so.
- M_Grey 10y agoThe choice to invade, sure, the choice to waste a billion a day? Not so much.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoApparently if you build permanent buildings in another country, its politically very different than if they let you camp there. So we camped.
- M_Grey 10y agoYeah, because we were so concerned about international opinion that one time...