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DAMN, I’M PRESCIENT!

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Either I am prescient or the Iranians are reading my blog. In my piece of 9-27-07, in reference to the senate’s calling on the president to dub the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as terrorists, I wrote:

“How might we react if they decided to apply a similar outlaw appellation to our globe-operative Special Forces?”

From today’s news:

Iran declares U.S. Army, CIA 'terrorists'
Sept. 29: Iran's parliament has voted to declare the U.S. Army and the CIA as 'terrorist organizations.' MSNBC's Alex Witt reports

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BTW: President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has invited elements of the Taliban into his government.

Wait a minute…aren’t those the guys--the “Students of Religion”--whom we routed when they reneged at giving up Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda—and those who have been shooting at us from the rocky crags ever since? Well, they’re baaaaak!—and so is Osama…

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There has been a lot of discussion recently about the dwindling sources of fresh water on the planet—with talk of “water wars” and such. Let’s not get our knickers in a bunch; have we forgotten that water covers most of the earth’s surface? Yeah, desalination is costly—NOW…