Galt,
Your comments are not only totally VALID (serious compliment to you), but out of admiration for mentioning "Pinky and the Brain" (who now seem to be operating out of the Oval Office), may I suggest further reading:
Not only are "Brave New World" and "1984" excellent primers on current globalization culture, but read Robert Heinlein's "Friday" (written in 1982) which describes life in a "technical society" where terrorists (and freedom fighters) use technology to do very nasty things while trying to stay invisible. Interesting violence and sex as well. (This IS a Heinlein book.)
Fortunately, the Islamist fanatics are not as bright as they could be otherwise the destruction to everyone would be even worse. (I taught Chemical-Biological-Radiological warfare in the Army Reserves in 1971 and I am thankful I am on OUR side.) Hopefully the "Islamo-Idiots" will stick with standard operating systems so that there is a chance of following the bread crumbs as opposed to Ubuntu or some of the other, more open systems.
It IS going to get interesting.
What I am looking forward to is someone realizing that (shade of 1984) the Saudis and Iranians really out-sourced their war with Iraq to the US, since shutting down the supply of Iraqi oil is good for their economies. What we need to do is to out-source it to a country with sufficient military, economic, engineering, credibility, and cultural resources to take over and end the War in Iraq for us.
And China needs the Iraqi oil and image as a world peacemaker even more than we do.
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