'I "read" Sir Gawain in a really half-assed way. However, my exam essay on it was, in the prof's words, "very strong."'
Better not make a habit of it -- if you read only everything half-assed, and learn to bullshit about it, they might make you a professor. Worse, if you don't read it at all, you could get tenure :p
Did you read it in the original or a translated version? I still have my own translation somewhere, though it needs some cleaning up.
(I caught a pun in the original that no one seems to have noticed -- I'm quite proud of that.)
"P.S. Dick Cheney was behind 9/11."
I don't think he was, though I don't think he'd have had any scruples against doing something like that.
Cheney was already publicly musing on the idea of removing Saddam back in the 1990s -- and posted publicly online a lament that it would take something like the bombing of Pearl Harbour to do it.
But if Cheney had been orchestrating it, he wouldn't have tied it to Afghanistan. That meant wasting time and resources in a meaningless war on the way to the main show.
Rather, everything the Bushistas did after the bombing indicates that they were very, very clumsily putting together a plan after the fact. The half-assed attempts to connect Saddam to bin Laden -- attempts that fooled no one with a grasp on reality -- indicate they didn't have much time to prepare or to falsify evidence.
Clearly, using Afghanistan to justify Iraq was a plan hatched at the last minute. It would've been better-executed, otherwise.
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Date: 2006-08-15 10:20 am (UTC)Better not make a habit of it -- if you read only everything half-assed, and learn to bullshit about it, they might make you a professor. Worse, if you don't read it at all, you could get tenure :p
Did you read it in the original or a translated version? I still have my own translation somewhere, though it needs some cleaning up.
(I caught a pun in the original that no one seems to have noticed -- I'm quite proud of that.)
"P.S. Dick Cheney was behind 9/11."
I don't think he was, though I don't think he'd have had any scruples against doing something like that.
Cheney was already publicly musing on the idea of removing Saddam back in the 1990s -- and posted publicly online a lament that it would take something like the bombing of Pearl Harbour to do it.
But if Cheney had been orchestrating it, he wouldn't have tied it to Afghanistan. That meant wasting time and resources in a meaningless war on the way to the main show.
Rather, everything the Bushistas did after the bombing indicates that they were very, very clumsily putting together a plan after the fact. The half-assed attempts to connect Saddam to bin Laden -- attempts that fooled no one with a grasp on reality -- indicate they didn't have much time to prepare or to falsify evidence.
Clearly, using Afghanistan to justify Iraq was a plan hatched at the last minute. It would've been better-executed, otherwise.