{"id":614,"date":"2005-07-08T11:14:26","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T18:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=614"},"modified":"2005-07-08T11:14:26","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T18:14:26","slug":"london-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/07\/08\/london-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"London Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>The Max-train stops at the Rose Garden. Two police officers for every cart walk on, take a quick look at every passenger, meeting in the middle, and then walk off the train.<\/p>\n

I tend to scratch my head.<\/p>\n

can’t remember the last time I saw a Tri-Met rider who didn’t look either unusual or sneaky. Americans on public transit always look sneaky because it’s Not Polite To Stare, so we avoid direct eye contact.<\/i>
\n……………<\/p>\n

Tom Leykus’s show diverted away from the usual t and a act yesterday. It’s helpful to know that Rudy Giuliani showed up on CNN, and the television news network immediately went to a sort of “New York” centric coverage of the event.<\/p>\n

At one point, a caller came in saying that we need to bomb the enemy. “Who?” “The Enemy! Islam!” “Huh? Give me the coordinates. Bomb a Mosque in L.A.??” “No! Hit them over there!” “Over where? What — are we suppose to hit every country that starts with an ‘I’?”<\/p>\n

Pretty much, it seems.<\/p>\n

Bush: I don’t–I don’t think we can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that the–those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in part of the world, let’s put it that way.<\/i><\/p>\n

Which always striked me as basically the truth. Excepting… well… the best I can come up with with the War In Iraq is that Kuwait now lets women drive cars. (That’s why it’s all worth it, you see. Freedom is on the March.) [One step forward; two steps backward<\/a>, and the corruptible “Fly Paper Strategy” is shown as the farcical rationalization that it is… beyond which.)<\/p>\n

I used to be surprised we didn’t have suicide bombers in the USA. It’s an easy, low-cost method of Terrorism that anyone and their brother can do. But now that I think of it, perhaps it just stylistically does not fit. Bin Laden (who I’ll guess is in Pakistan — and remember the recent “I think we know where he is — but we must recognize nations’ sovreignty” statement) prefers a big Event… and I guess al Qaeda is still centralized enough to the extent that they’ll occasionally throw out a “Big Event” in the Western World…<\/p>\n

… at a time of their own choosing, I may as well add.<\/p>\n

Which is Par for the Course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Max-train stops at the Rose Garden. Two police officers for every cart walk on, take a quick look at every passenger, meeting in the middle, and then walk off the train. I tend to scratch my head. can’t remember the last time I saw a Tri-Met rider who didn’t look either unusual or sneaky. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}