"Moussaoui should hang"

(pic via desi)

* "But in a reflection of new challenges, the (new "National Security Strategy of the United States") document also covers territory that the first strategy sidestepped, warning China, for example, against "old ways of thinking and acting" in its competition for energy resources.
China's leaders, it says, are "expanding trade, but acting as if they can somehow 'lock up' energy supplies around the world or seek to direct markets rather than opening them up — as if they can follow a mercantilism borrowed from a discredited era."" (link)
please tell me they are kidding.

* scott hates the state, but thinks that " Zacharias Moussaoui... should hang". i dont really understand that

* scott: "It always seemed to me that the empowering of Iran was accidental, as the US completely underestimated the power of Ayatollah Sistani to demand direct elections, and that Bush/Cheney would never let them get away with it."