"R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >At 3:32 AM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote: >>Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:16:41AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: >>>><http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109936293065461940,00.html> >>>No cypherpunks content. Just local politics. >> >>And it's not even original, they've mostly just translated it into English, >>updated it a bit (e.g. League of Nations -> UN), and changed the Russian names >>and references to Middle Eastern ones. > >Yup. That's Davis' point, actually. Fuck with the West, we kick your ass.
Well it wasn't the point I was trying to make, which was comparing it to predictions made by (the propaganda division of) another super-power in the mid 1940s about winning an unwinnable war because God/righteousness/whatever was on their side, and all they had to do was hold out a bit longer. Compare the general tone of the WSJ article to the one in e.g. the first half of http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/documents/htestmnt.htm. Peter.