Michael Braun's Blog

Finally, the US can stop feeling bad about electing a president who couldn’t read. Remember, before 9/11, when Bush received the report titled “Bin Laden Determined to Attack in the United States”? It described how he planned to have terrorists, who were already in the US, hijack planes and fly them into buildings. And of course, Bush didn’t read it because A) he’s illiterate and B) he was too busy hanging around his ranch.

CNN is now reporting that the US warned India of a maritime attack on Mumbai a month ago. As well all know now, such an attack did take place, claiming nearly 200 lives and requiring days of fighting between armed terrorists and police and military officials. It’s nice to know that India’s leaders, like US leaders, can’t read.

Even with the warning, you’d better start building your bomb shelter. This attack could start World War III. In my experience, the third part of any trilogy is always the worst. It’s bound to hold true in this case as well, what with both India and Pakistan rocking the nukes. India blames Pakistan, of course. And Pakistan says they had nothing to do with it and thus refuse to cooperate in any way, of course. If I was that predictable, you could just stop reading now.

What now, US leaders? Are you going to let these two nations destroy each other and the world? Bush is too lame-duck to do anything. Condi Rice is flying over there shortly to tell them to knock it off. Meanwhile, those Indian ministers who haven’t already resigned are now playing cover-up of the fact that they knew about the planned attack weeks early. And what about this threat of terrorism that Bush was determined to defeat? We haven’t had an attack on the United States since 9/11, but there sure have been a lot all over the rest of the world. So much for a “global” war on terrorism. And what about those nuclear bombs? If they start falling, we’ll all wish for the days when our biggest worry was terrorism.