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A Stitch in Time Saves Nine...But Haste Makes Waste

A collection of real-world libertarian, individualist and laissez-faire rants on law, economics, politics, culture and other current events
by an average, everyday lawyer & investment banker and part-time pop scholar.

Mission Now "Accomplished" at 4000 and Counting
(Why aren't you reading this at the new website?)

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If you've been tracking the table in the left sidebar, then you are hardly surprised:


The other relevant number in this context is, of course, "100" -- well, maybe.


It's quite simple really. Roadside bombs do not detonate in Germany. Terrorists are not blowing themselves up alongside the Korea DMZ.

Staying in Iraq for 50 years -- "maybe 100" -- is simply not the same as staying in Korea or Germany for 50 years -- "maybe 100." And anyone who, among innumerable other faults, simply cannot grasp this most rudimentary distinction between events current and historical must be kept as far away from the White House as electorally possible.
Posted by Kip on 24 March 2008


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