"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Anatomy of an Air Attack Gone Wrong
Submitted by Melinda L. Secor on Sun, 2012-12-30 02:00
"The villagers who rushed to the road, cutting through rocky fields in central Yemen, found the dead strewn around a burning sport utility vehicle. The bodies were dusted with white powder -- flour and sugar, the witnesses said -- that the victims were bringing home from market when the aircraft attacked. A torched woman clutched her daughter in a lifeless embrace. Four severed heads littered the pavement."
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I beg to disagree. The air attack did not go "wrong". It was a routine act of insanity by an organized gang of psychotic individuals gathered into a "collective" and called "government". Sam