Thursday, May 14, 2009
Silliest statement of the year
In connection with torture, Pelosi, etc:
One of the "strategists" on a cable discussion program supports the "need" to have criminal investigations of previous wartime decisions:
"If we don't expose these things to the light, we won't learn how to do it differently."
Utter nonsense. Republican and Democrat presidents do the same bad things. Some of the bad things are unquestionably necessary, others seem necessary at the time, others are purely irrational. We always expose the bad actions when a Republican does them, and we never expose the bad actions when a Democrat does them. We never learn anything from any of this ratshit. The only effect of the exposures is to make intelligence agencies more timid, more secretive, less willing to step outside the bounds when necessary. And this is irrelevant anyway because the CIA has failed to give us any meaningful intelligence since 1948. It was useless before the Church Commission of 1976, it was even more useless thereafter, and it will be evener morer uselesser (if that's grammatically or physically possible) after the current firestorm is over. Nevertheless we will continue to fund it, and we will continue to rely on its universally wrong "information".
Come to think of it, we do the same with public schools. Every "reform" makes them worse, every funding increase makes their "learning" even more negative, makes every year wasted inside the schools more viciously destructive of brainpower. We know this. The facts are openly available and indisputable. And yet we continue to "reform" the schools, continue to increase their funding, thus doing more harm to our students every year. ¶ 8:27 AM
One of the "strategists" on a cable discussion program supports the "need" to have criminal investigations of previous wartime decisions:
"If we don't expose these things to the light, we won't learn how to do it differently."
Utter nonsense. Republican and Democrat presidents do the same bad things. Some of the bad things are unquestionably necessary, others seem necessary at the time, others are purely irrational. We always expose the bad actions when a Republican does them, and we never expose the bad actions when a Democrat does them. We never learn anything from any of this ratshit. The only effect of the exposures is to make intelligence agencies more timid, more secretive, less willing to step outside the bounds when necessary. And this is irrelevant anyway because the CIA has failed to give us any meaningful intelligence since 1948. It was useless before the Church Commission of 1976, it was even more useless thereafter, and it will be evener morer uselesser (if that's grammatically or physically possible) after the current firestorm is over. Nevertheless we will continue to fund it, and we will continue to rely on its universally wrong "information".
Come to think of it, we do the same with public schools. Every "reform" makes them worse, every funding increase makes their "learning" even more negative, makes every year wasted inside the schools more viciously destructive of brainpower. We know this. The facts are openly available and indisputable. And yet we continue to "reform" the schools, continue to increase their funding, thus doing more harm to our students every year. ¶ 8:27 AM
