Sunday, April 22, 2012 — The following item ran in our “Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes)” for this date: ”
2002 — “The Taliban is out of business permanently,” says Dick ‘Dick’ Cheney at a GOP fundraiser in Florida.”
Who could be a better judge of the threat posed by insurgent fighters than a serial collector of five — count them, five — draft deferments?
Reminds us of what Friedrich Nietzsche said: “Madness is the result not of uncertainty but of certainty.”
Here’s a graph showing the relationship of U.S. casualties before [20] and after [1,833] Cheney’s Florida remark.