the Daily Whale - 16 January 1993

The Pentagon believes that when military force is to be used, it should be overwhelming. Why was the strike on Iraq so light?

Iraq is like a ship of state in an embargo-bottle. Saddam Hussein keeps trying to push the cork out, and every so often we have to tap it back in place. He’ll run out of air eventually.

Remember the power of metaphor. It makes everything seem simple.