Author Topic: We Near the Edge of the Precipice (Read 1227 times)

Hangtime · « **on:** October 17, 2001, 09:43:00 PM »

Headlines..

Israli Tourism Minister Assisnated... retaliation immenient. "We will not let this pass.."

Pakistan and India move armed forces to the highest alert status as situation in Kashmir comes to a head.

US and Great Britan step up retaliation strikes on hostile Iraq A/A radar installations in southern Iraq. Kurdish unrest grows in the North.

Syrian troop movements alarm Israel.

Afgan relief orginizations request halt to bombing citing 'immenent starvation' of approximately 250,000 afghan refugees.

U.S. indicates 'Operations against Al Queida networks in other countries very likey in near future'.

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Ruh-roh.

I give it two more weeks, tops; before the region is entirely outta control... if not a wasteland.

Wobble · « **Reply #1 on:** October 17, 2001, 09:50:00 PM »

and guess who most idiots will point their fingers at......

Crapgame · « **Reply #2 on:** October 17, 2001, 09:55:00 PM »

Hangtime,

You missed a headline:
http://www.unitedstates.com/news/farticle/610338?20011017151113

But seriously, I tend to agree with your view. The situation is getting uglier and already we seem to be embarking on a strange course of conduct. Drop food and bombs? Seems a waste to me. I'd go on with some other observations but for now I'll keep my counsel. This is a dangerous time for us as a Nation. I pray to God that he see's us through this time.
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Crapgame

easymo · « **Reply #3 on:** October 17, 2001, 09:55:00 PM »

shuffle the names around a little, and you could have written this same thing 10 years ago.

Hangtime · « **Reply #4 on:** October 17, 2001, 10:10:00 PM »

10 years ago the WTC was still standing, and 2 of the 4 protagonists did not have weaponized nulear material.

This situation is making the Cuban Missile Crisis look like a mild headache.

weazel · « **Reply #5 on:** October 17, 2001, 10:15:00 PM »

Berkeley, home of the University of California at Berkeley campus, was the birthplace
of the free speech movement in the 1960s with Mario Salvo and has been a hotbed of
peace protests since the Vietnam War.

Napalm would *cool* their civil unrest.

Hangtime · « **Reply #6 on:** October 17, 2001, 10:25:00 PM »

You housebreak puppies with a rolled-up newspaper.

Lacking a sufficently large newspaper, possibly the death certificates and photographs of the 6,000 + dead from the WTC would suffice.

I assure you, if the Golden Gate gets dropped or the Trans-America Tower gets smacked by a 767, Berkleys Boneheads would not be humming "Cooombyeyah".

easymo · « **Reply #7 on:** October 17, 2001, 10:49:00 PM »

If we stop listening to the newsweenies yell FIRE for a second. And we really think about what has happened. It doesn't look like much of a threat.

You had a handful of guys armed with box cutters and the element of surprise. They did most of the damage.

If the anthrax thing had anything to do with the middle eastern terrorist, yet to be proven, they have only succeeded in killing one person. Treatable disease doesn't really, sound like much of a threat.

They are not delivering their attacks in there own bombers. They have been forced to use our totally manageable resources to deliver any attack.

With the element of surprise gone, I don't think they have toejam. At least no way to deliver it.

Now, three years from now, if we go back to sleep. They might be able to inflict substantial casualties on us. But I don't think the world is ending by a long shot.

Not to mention that it is hard to plan an attack when your dodging puff

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Hangtime · « **Reply #8 on:** October 17, 2001, 11:58:00 PM »

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Not to mention that it is hard to plan an attack when your dodging puff

LOL! I did chuckle when I heard they sent 'ol 'spooky' in.. if it's even half as scary as i remember; we'll be needing to drop almost as much hugahunk as we do food.

Easy.. aside from the rather important 'line' the terrorist use of bio-weapons in the U.S. crossed, the event in itself is a non-issue, at least as yet.. Its the stuff thats happening in the middle east region RIGHT NOW that's got me sittin up and taking notice.

It's all the lil things together, THERE; happening at an escalating pace that make it so damned mesmerizing. I've never seen anythin in history like this.. the stakes are fuggin HUGE; and the players that can impact it's outcome are, almost beyond belief, insignificant by themselves yet ominious in concert.

One or two unknown zealots can easily at this point spark a reaction that could within hours light up the whole region.

One or two more assinations... say Musarief or mubarak gets whacked; another 1 or 2 israli ministers.... *poof*

easymo · « **Reply #9 on:** October 18, 2001, 12:12:00 AM »

I wont deny that it is a powder keg. But you have to consider what these people are armed with. With the exception of the Israelis you have most of the armament being old soviet stuff. And I doubt the Russians gave/sold their state of the art stuff at that. The nukes, they might have, have to be delivered. And if they did. one or two dropped on a nhbor isn't going to end life as we know it. The chances of them getting one into our country are about the same as the president being abducted by aliens.

newguy2 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 18, 2001, 12:22:00 AM »

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It's all the lil things together, THERE; happening at an escalating pace that make it so damned mesmerizing. I've never seen anythin in history like this.. the stakes are fuggin HUGE; and the players that can impact it's outcome are, almost beyond belief,

Sure there was. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 28 June, 1914 WW1 was rockin by August 1914.

zapkin · « **Reply #11 on:** October 18, 2001, 12:31:00 AM »

I pray to God that he has more compassion for the rest of us than he did the 5,000 people buried in NYC...

Eagler · « **Reply #12 on:** October 18, 2001, 06:32:00 AM »

hang

you forgot China

here we are now buddying up with these guys in the name of gathering intelligence...

just gets weirder and weirder each day..

Eagler · « **Reply #13 on:** October 18, 2001, 08:28:00 AM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime:
You housebreak puppies with a rolled-up newspaper.

Lacking a sufficently large newspaper, possibly the death certificates and photographs of the 6,000 + dead from the WTC would suffice.

I assure you, if the Golden Gate gets dropped or the Trans-America Tower gets smacked by a 767, Berkleys Boneheads would not be humming "Cooombyeyah".

it's not their fault, if you smoked the stuff they have growing in them CA hills, you'd love everyone and everything too...
add the fact their parents smoked the stuff while procreatin em, they were wacked from birth...

Hangtime · « **Reply #14 on:** October 18, 2001, 08:31:00 AM »

Oh, bite me eagler. I been smokin that stuff fer 40 years, it don't make you a diddlyin pacificst. It does make the Chili taste better tho.