Afghan Notebook #25

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  • Mr. Rall:

    Read more speculative fiction. Good roads are essential for the movement of armies, so of course the US built good roads in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Not to mention Eisenhower’s development of a good road system in the US to facilitate military mobilisation.) The US may have left the electricity in shambles, and the schools, and the water, and the economy, but the roads are GREAT!

    I wish I remembered the story (a far-right piece I read 40 years ago) about an ‘expert’ who studied planets to decide if they were militarising, and, if they were, to send an intergalactic police squad to stop them with a bloodless police action before they became dangerous (cf. Churchill: Germany, ’33) and required a major war. The protagonist found a planet with great roads and stadia they said were for a sport, but no one seemed very good at the sport (because the stadia were really for military drills). So, of course, the intergalactic police raided the place and pacified it without violence (because they acted in time).

    Where are the intergalactic police when you need them?

  • I know this question does not have a great social and political import but does Ted have issues with portraying himself? Each cartoon looks like a different guy, and none of them looks like the author in real life.
    At least Van Gogh painted himself consistently yellowish.

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