Eric:
"The reason we're flooded with spam is simple. Spam Works"
But why does it work? Even if I wanted generic Viagra or organ enhancement, I would't want more every day. And once you've seen a dozen Nigerian embezzlement schemes you've seen 'em all. Are there really enough people newly online to keep these things going? Unlike porn, for which there obviously is a market for repeat business.
Kaj: "Let's face it: someone just didn't think of protecting the museum, or just didn't think it was very important."
That seems right. It's not as if there were a lot of US soldiers standing around doing nothing. (Which gets back to the argument about whether there were too few soldiers assigned to the operation.) But the looting of the museum was not, pace Messrs. Nielsen Hayden and Quiggen, deliberate policy.
David Bilek:
Yes!!! Good catch, Jon! That's *exactly* what he said!
My ironymeter may be on the blink. Who is "he"? The guy who said he wanted 'regime change' in the US in 2003, or the guy who said (this campaign of) the war will be over before 2004?
It's worth noting the follow-up:
"UPDATE: Damn. That was a good line I had there up above, but Bush is surprising me with a decent speech. By general standards it's so-so at best, but relative to Bush it counts as a home run."
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