Bombarded by brutal rhetoric

[barbara100 at jps.net]

Thanks, Jasper.  I don't know, though, 'egg on the face' doesn't really
capture my feelings today. Egg would be nice actually, dribbling down the
chins of those little pot bellied Afghan kids.  If there's anything on the
faces I'm imagining,  it's dribbles of green, from the grass bread and
porriage.  After reading about that, the "cold" Canadian doesn't make much
of an impression on me.


----- Original Message -----
From: Jasper Fidget <fakename at tokyo.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 4:38 PM
Subject: Bombarded by brutal rhetoric


> http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/columnists/story.html?f=/stories/
> 20020107/1053525.html
>
> January 7, 2002
>
> Bombarded by brutal rhetoric
>
> Mark Steyn National Post
>
> Whatever happened to the "brutal Afghan winter"? It was "fast
> approaching" back in late September, and apparently it's still "fast
> approaching" today. "Winter is fast, fast approaching," reported ABC's
> Nightline on September 26th.
>
> Two weeks on, New York's Daily News announced that, "realistically, U.S.
> forces have a window of two or three weeks before the brutal Afghan
> winter begins to foreclose options."
[...]