Sunday, October 26, 2003

Halo is Freakin' Great. Oh yeah -- finished it this weekend...yes I am a slow older guy playing an Action Game.  I haven't played one in a very long time.  It was just a boatload of fun...highly recommended.  Good creepiness, great diversity...and the end is a blast...total nail-biter!  It's Not Just Another Action Game! 10:38:29 PM     | comment [] | trackback []

Not Even a "Weapons Program". First the story was "They Have WMD".  Then the story became "They Have Weapons Programs".  I wonder what's next, given the incredibly detailed reporting in today's Washington Post, about the findings of the Kay teams.  Read it; you owe yourself that. Seriously -- how do they spin this one?  My best guess is that they're going to abandon the terrorism and WMD lines of thought entirely, and simply focus on "we did the right thing".  Was it the right thing to do?  I don't know...in a relative sense, in Iraq -- yes.  In the long run they'll be better off IF the Islamic Nutscases(tm) don't find a way to corrupt the emerging government.  The question is, what else could we have done with $200 Billion?  Could we have done more good elsewhere?  American's security was never at risk, vis-a-vis Iraq.  So what we've done is engage in a fantastically expensive piece of nation building.  Bush claimed during the election that he was against nation building.  How, then, did he end up doing so much of it? Of course, nobody is going to accuse him of nation-building in Afghanistan (remember Afghanistan?  We blew it up too).  10:24:11 PM     | comment [] | trackback []