(just kidding)
And I kind of feel bad about it.
I'm hesitant to promote my blog because I don't want people to feel obligated to read it. And I guess I don't want my employers to find out about it.
I wonder if anyone will read my comment on the New Yorker and actually check out my blog post. And if they do, I wonder what they'll think. (which most of this stuff is)
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And I guess what I like about posting a link to my blog on The New Yorker is that:
1) The New Yorker might be the most pretentious magazine in America
2) I commented on a very serious story about a guy who wrote what is essentially a textbook about US counterterrorism communication strategies
3) In my comment I simply wrote that the author "could have saved himself a lot of time if he had just read my blog post three years ago"
So 4) the only people who will take the time to cut and paste the link into their browser might be the ones expecting something serious
and 5) there is a part of my post where the President of Syria says to the leader of Hezbollah, "Some guys prefer to get fucked in the asshole, but that's none of my business."
Maybe I should just be satisfied with the readers I have.
2 comments:
Reading your blog is the only part of my day that isn't a waste of time. And I charge $250 an hour for what I do. Honest, hardworking American companies pay me $250/hr, and I even bill for it in six minute increments to make sure they aren't getting any of my time for "free" by rounding down an hour and six minutes to an hour. In fact, I could have charged $50 rather than checking your blog and posting this comment, but I chose not to. Never has the New Yorker received that distinction from me.
For what it's worth.
Found your post via the link. I agree and have thought along the same lines since 9/11.
My basic angle is that the world knows we can win any conventional battle but also knew we were afraid of a street fight. Iraq changed all of that. It wasn't using a submarine to launch tomahawk missles at an asprin factory (Albright's WMD "retaliation"). It was a street fight, pure and simple.
You take down the land of Mecca after 9/11 you start a holy war. Instead you take down their neighbor.
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