> I've been amazed over the last few days by Washington's amazement at
> the tenacity of the Taliban and by U.S. forces' failure to get any
> useful intelligence in their ground raid the other day. Any
> reasonably literate newspaper reader could have predicted both. Is it
> groupthink that led them to these idiotic expectations? Racist
> underestimates of the foe? What?
>
I'm in a bad enough mood today to think that nobody in the Departments of Defense or State ever seriously believed that air raids would do much more than blow up innocent bystanders and worthless rocks, and that their professed surprise is like Captain Renault's in _Casablanca_: "I'm shocked, SHOCKED to see that gambling is going on here!"
Meanwhile, the plant that processes mail for Manhattan is a potential massive anthrax vector, and the union is *SUING* to close it? Whatever happened to strikes? -- Curtiss, in the throes of PMS