Ysterday, in a History Channel program about icebreakers (the ships that can "cut thru the stuff"...), they said that Israel some years ago purchased a no longer state of the art, but nonetheless heavy-duty *ice breaker* from the U.S. Navy. What in heaven or purgatory or hell does Israel need with an *ice breaker*? But I suspect they *do* have some very "good" use for its 2-inch thick steel hull with all those closely spaced reinforcing beams all down the hull and super-powerful engines....
\brad mccormick
Probably precautionary. Nobody is quite sure of whether we are in for global warming or global cooling.
Two points:
(1) Someone criticized me for saying in my posting that "I doubt I'd like most "Palestineans"". That was a "sop for Cerebrus", to indicate that I am not an enemy sympathizer in wartime. It's probably true, but I am, as you all have probably figured out long since, "an equal opportunity offender".
(2) Shifting from ice breakers to nuclear subs: I read that the U.S. navy is buying less expensive and smaller US$2.5 billion new subs to address the new threat of rogue states and terrorist organizations. I had this vision of one of these new submarines growning rudimentary arms and legs and crawling up out of the water and crawling into the caves of Tora Bora to try to apprehend Osama bin Laden....
As Hannah Arendt might say: It's "animal laborans" holiday weekend here in the U.S.A. (see _The Human Condition_, passim)....
Cheers!
\brad mccormick
Ed Weick
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Ysterday, in a History Channel program about icebreakers (the ships that can "cut thru the stuff"...), they said that Israel some years ago purchased a no longer state of the art, but nonetheless heavy-duty *ice breaker* from the U.S. Navy. What in heaven or purgatory or hell does Israel need with an *ice breaker*? But I suspect they *do* have some very "good" use for its 2-inch thick steel hull with all those closely spaced reinforcing beams all down the hull and super-powerful engines....
Today's news is that the Israelis succeeded in blowing up a Hamas leader who was travelling in a residential neighborhood in a donkey cart.
Doesn't anybody think there is something "asymmetrical" about using F-16s to launch missiles to blow up Hamas leaders being driven in their Mercedes-Benzes?
I doubt I'd like most "Palestineans" (although I did once meet a self-avowed Muslim Syrian employee of the U.N. who genuinely surprised me as being an apparently humanistic individual...). But if the Israelis were "anybody else", would we all see them as such exemplary paragon citizens of the shining city on a hill?
I can only conclude that I misread the story of King Solomon's judgment about the two women and the baby. But then I only claim to know secular hermeneutics....
\brad mccormick
-- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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