> You were responding to a post by someone wondering whether the scare about
second-wave attacks was real. An honest question, that you used as the
occasion for a sneer. The same sneer that creeps across your face as you
pen your lines about "the exciting life of a Chicago academic." Actually,
my daughter's stellar play in goal today was plenty exciting, not to mention
my son's take-no-prisoners midfield play. So go ahead. Sneer at my kids
now; no doubt you'll feel better.
Dragging your kids in to make a point? Are they aware of Daddy's tactics?
> As for cynicism - how could anything compare with our "twisted version of
Great Game realpolitik" in South Asia over the last half century? Backing
the butchers in Bangladesh, funding bin Laden, agreeing to look the other
way while Pakistan acquires nukes...quite a record, wouldn't you say?
Yes.
> Since you've bothered to learn fuck-all about my stance, I'll thank you to
shut your trap about it. I've been telling anyone who will listen that our
policy in this part of the world would lead to disaster since 1987.
And no one listened to you? I'm shocked. Really.
> What the fuck were you doing while there was still time to avoid the
worst?
Not watching my kids play soccer, I assure you.
DP