LILEKS: The Bleat

Here's LILEKS: The Bleat response to the Kerry piece in NYT Magazine when Kerry referred to terrorism as a nuisance and equated it with prostition and illegal gambling:

"But that's not the key phrase. This matters: We have to get back to the place we were.

But when we were there we were blind. When we were there we were losing. When we were there we died. We have to get back to the place we were. We have to get back to 9/10? We have to get back to the place we were. So we can go through it all again? We have to get back to the place we were. And forget all we've learned and done? We have to get back to the place we were. No. I don't want to go back there. Planes into towers. That changed the terms. I am remarkably disinterested in returning to a place where such things are unimaginable. Where our nighmares are their dreams.

We have to get back to the place we were.

No. We have to go the place where they are."

Read it all, and read Lileks often. The guy is in our neighboring state of Minnesota, so he has midwestern values, plus he has some unique interests and creativity. Pretty entertaining stuff.