This is dumb, not just because of the free speech implications, but because they are shutting down the voices that could be the most important ones in support of the war. But even if not, it’s a violation of the values for which these soldiers (and other military personnel) are fighting. Of course no operational information should be blogged, but there’s no evidence that this has occurred. It sounds more like stupid bureaucracy to me (which is the story of the Bush administration, and of every administration). Of course, that’s the story of big government itself. Unfortunately, it’s not something that we can get around when it comes to making war.
This is dumb, not just because of the free speech implications, but because they are shutting down the voices that could be the most important ones in support of the war. But even if not, it’s a violation of the values for which these soldiers (and other military personnel) are fighting. Of course no operational information should be blogged, but there’s no evidence that this has occurred. It sounds more like stupid bureaucracy to me (which is the story of the Bush administration, and of every administration). Of course, that’s the story of big government itself. Unfortunately, it’s not something that we can get around when it comes to making war.
This is dumb, not just because of the free speech implications, but because they are shutting down the voices that could be the most important ones in support of the war. But even if not, it’s a violation of the values for which these soldiers (and other military personnel) are fighting. Of course no operational information should be blogged, but there’s no evidence that this has occurred. It sounds more like stupid bureaucracy to me (which is the story of the Bush administration, and of every administration). Of course, that’s the story of big government itself. Unfortunately, it’s not something that we can get around when it comes to making war.
Do you want to ensure uniqueness of them to the end of history? If so, that’s real farsightedness. By my count, with that “q=whatever” parameter, you can provide 62^43rd unique post IDs (upper/lower case plus the ten digits, with 43 characters). We know you Corner guys (and gals) can be prolific, but consider that this may be overkill. Unless there’s something going on that requires a unique fixed field length up front, it is possible to do it by simply going sequential (I’m only up to 9000 or so on my blog). I haven’t done the math, but I suspect that with your scheme, you could assign an ID to every particle in the known universe, with more than a few left over. The sun would start to dim long before you got out to even the twentieth field for your post IDs.
Ann Coulter, a couple minutes ago, in response to a comment that Bush’s polls were the worst since Jimmy Carter: “Bush got his polls down by fighting a war, Carter got his down by fighting a rabbit.”
One clue to this phenomenon may come from jazz musician Tarek Shah, who recently pled guilty to providing martial arts and hand-to-hand combat with weapons training to Al-Qaeda operatives. In 2004 Shah told a man he thought was a fellow jihadist but who turned out to be an undercover agent,