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[Thu, 23 Oct 2003]
Umm...
This is a rather weird article- this guy (Henry Liu)
often writes in Asia Times, usually with a pro-China-anti-West
perspective, which is interesting because he owns an investment fund in
NY. Anyway, this article is about why Iraq will still prove to be America's
Waterloo. He started off with a rather grouchy argument about how the U.S.
didn't fight an honourable war in Iraq- by his standards, the first army
to use cannons against archers was being totally dishonourable. He then
managed to bug me off when he flippantly dismissed British Rule over
India: "[after the 1857 rebellion] the British changed the name of Queen
Victoria to 'Empress of the British Empire' and kept India for another 100
years". Maaro. However, he later made a really good point about why
soldiers don't make good policemen: they are *trained* to have no
compunctions about killing a (enemy) man i.e. no moral questions which, in
turn, make a good policeman. On a related note, here's an IHT article
about how American soldiers are suffering from the culture shock. He also
managed to disparage the volunteer system of American army- no drafting.
Umm...some people just weren't meant to 'get' free-will. Anyway, he ends
up saying that the Americans are just overstretched and hence this will be
their Waterloo. Very iffy conclusions, I'd say.
Mmm...delicious
Yesterday was a particularly bad day in terms of food
matters: free-food-pizza for lunch and pungent-smelling chicken wings for
dinner. And then I saw
this :-( I always thought that Kerala would be the
last place on anybody's list to visit- so humid and all. Apparently not, and of course- can't beat the food.
Also, I never realized that Zagat survey didn't rate places by critics but by a reader survey. The idea of a campus Samosa and Dosa shop serving 4-star (Zagat rated, of course) food doesn't sound so implausible anymore: set up a food truck near the steps at 77 Mass Av, maybe kick out the Greek food-truck that's there (it sucks anyway), set up a laptop (MITNet zindabad!), and give a $1 discount to every poor soul who'll go to Zagat.com and vote for "MT@MIT". Don't forget that AB won the "Actor of the Millennium" BBC poll- it was an internet poll, of course.
Am I good or what!
Lo and behold! (this is why I am smirking).