womzilla | When Bad Wishes Come True

I was re-reading some of my old Usenet posts and came across this:

Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
Message-ID: 7euostc947kh9qdcf7geqn95eihf73nkg6@4ax.com
Date: 16 Oct 2001 23:27:54 -0400,

I wrote:

>From the Grauniad, in an article about the possible Iraq origin of the
>current anthrax packages:
>
><http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,573893,00.html>
>
> Administration officials close to the group told The Observer : 'We
> see this war as one against the virus of terrorism. If you have
> bone marrow cancer, it's not enough to just cut off the patient's
> foot. You have to do the complete course of chemotherapy. And if
> that means embarking on the next Hundred Years' War, that's what
> we're doing.'
>
>I will quote myself now, from September 15:
> The biggest problem facing the US over the next few months is
> managing to respond to the 911 abomination in such a way that it
> doesn't leave us permanently in a state of undeclared war against
> everyone and everything.
>
>And repeat my recommendation of Phil Agre's "Imagining the Next War",
>at
><http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/2001/rre.imagining.the.next.w.html>.

There are times when one derives no satisfaction from being right.