Review

So I'm listening to the debate about the Iraq war and I hear Nancy Pelosi promise that the fighting will end in the next year (presumably if she has anything to say about it). Now I'm wondering, does she mean that she has a plan so the Iraqi civil war is ended or just that the American troops are brought home so the Democrats look good here and to hell with those ignorant religious nutbags in Iraq? Just like Europe wants to abandon an eager and willing Turkey the anti-war camp is ready to dump Iraq (which admittedly is somewhat less eager and/or willing then Turkey) off to itself. They ignore the fact that to pull American troops out essentially takes a low level civil war where at least the vague vestiges of government exist and drop it into full blown-quaqmire that is sure to kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and displace millions more. I thought the people who were opposed to the war were the ones we generally see as the more humanitarian ones? But the funny thing is they are just as self-centered as any other American political institution. They want to negoiate from a safe distance with full knowledge that at this point negoiations alone won't help. If our troops leave now Iraq as we know it is finished. We might as well call it Somalia and that only took a decade to maybe sort itself out (and an invasion from Ethiopia which could drive things downhill again).

Meh, politicians don't care about honor or sacrifice anymore. They just care about getting re-elected. Well that's my rant, incoherent or otherwise. Now onto the litery sections of the blog:

The Halo graphic novel and the The Black & White Treatises (for Exalted 2E) arrived today. The graphic novel did not really blow me away and that was dissapointing. However they had a gallery in the back and one fanastic picture of the master chief sitting out with all his(/her?) weapons in the style of the air show military aircraft. Very cool look, shame that the way the pages are set that it's hard to see it all well. B&WT is the sorcery/necromancy book for 2E. I've only skimmed it because the majority of the spells are re-hashes of 1E stuff but not too shabby thus far.

Well I need to prep for Ptolus tomorrow and do a write up from 2 weeks ago. Work was tough this week and I'm very glad to be done. Happy weekend I guess.