>SLOUCHING TOWARD BAGHDAD....
>By Mike Davis
>
>For all the geekspeak about networks and ecosystems, and
>millenarian boasting about minimal, robotic warfare,
>the United States is becoming a terror state pure and simple: a
>21st century Assyria with laptops and modems.
Undeniably true. Of course, as a lit-critter, my own taste runs towards a more, um, contemporary mode of allegory:
http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/Parallels.PDF
-- DRR