June 22, 2003
NATHAN HALE
Now that my Colonial Dander is up, why the heroic stature for this guy? He was a spy. Nothing noble there. Sabotage shit, knife people in the back. Spies get hung, because they're dirty little cheaters. Don't play by the rules. Remember the Nazis who dressed as Americans at Normandy and changed the roadsigns? We whacked 'em when we caught 'em. That's what you do with spies.
Kim, have you been watching "Liberty's Kids" on PBS again? Now, now.
Posted by: kelley at June 23, 2003 12:31 AMWe could've used a few good spies in the last 10 years or so in the Middle East. CIA pencil necks sat around polishing their knobs and averting risk while Islamists planned to cook our goose. Good thing W took the muzzle off after 9-11. I'm hopeful we're paying some first rate informants in the inner circle of these various Middle-Eastern cesspools. Nip them in the bud with a drone-fired hellfire missile, I say...
Spy Magazine was great for a while, by the way...
Posted by: rankin rob at June 23, 2003 3:49 PMMy point? Bond would go take the hit like a good soldier. Hey, my old man was in intelligence in WW2. It's a necessary, fractious bidness. One doesn't expect glory from it, as I recall.
Posted by: Kim at June 23, 2003 8:14 PM