Tuesday, February 21, 2006

When life (sadly) imitates art.


Does any of this sound eerily familiar?

US lags in propaganda war: Rumsfeld

The United States lags dangerously behind al Qaeda and other enemies in getting out information in the digital media age and must update its old-fashioned methods, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday...

The Pentagon's propaganda machine still operates mostly eight hours a day, five days a week while the challenges it faces occur 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Rumsfeld called that a "dangerous deficiency."

Ah, yes ... it's coming back to me ...

Gen. "Buck" Turgidson: I think it would be extremely naive of us, Mr. President, to imagine that these new developments are going to cause any change in Soviet expansionist policy. I mean, we must be increasingly on the alert to prevent them from taking over other mineshaft space, in order to breed more prodigiously than we do, thus, knocking us out in superior numbers when we emerge! Mr. President, we must not allow a mine shaft gap!

It would be amusing if it weren't ... nah, it's just amusing.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ahh! My favourite movie!! Never thought I'd see it come to reality though!