I think I finally figured what is going on with Iran and the hostages and the nuclear fuel and the aircraft carriers...
it is a very elaborate google bomb.
You wouldn't believe the number of hits Ahmadinejad has been getting (he needs to break the technorati top 1000 to really be in money I think, still a bit of a niche market - needs a bit of controversy to get over that last threshold)
Oh, and don't believe "Operation Bite"
I mean please! That just sucks. No, it bites.
The Pentagon can do way better than that, personally I'm holding out for "Operation Rising Sun"
Much more upbeat, kinda catchy. Not so truculent.
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Over at White Coat Underground, Pal has the post that I've been meaning to write. Earlier this summer, a family member posted on Facebook that a friend
Scholars have long warned about the increasing sound bite nature of our media and political system, but overlooked is the visual nature of this trend.
Now that seemingly the flu outbreak storyline has been wrapped up on The Walking Dead (unsurprisingly, but disappo
I'm an opposed-to-the-gulf-war-think-western-policy-in-the
-middle-east-is-crap sort, but am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the only kind of bomb that bearded psychotic pixie needs shouldn't have google on the front of it, but one of those GPS guidance packages, and that won't be out by 1.7 nautical miles. Then he'd find out where the 13th Imam was hiding.
Well, someone was probably hoping for that visceral reaction from a lot of people.
And, however satisfying it is at a base level to have blow-em-up revenge fantasies, the actual process of very quiet and determined diplomacy seems to have been played very well by the foreign office.
They have some good people at the FO.
A really interesting question is whether the release of an Iranian in Iraq was the quid pro quo. Unlikely to have been a coincidence. We may never know.