{"id":8592,"date":"2003-02-22T20:08:41","date_gmt":"2003-02-23T01:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/02\/22\/preemptive-mac-attack\/"},"modified":"2003-02-22T20:08:41","modified_gmt":"2003-02-23T01:08:41","slug":"preemptive-mac-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/02\/preemptive-mac-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Preemptive Mac Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesus Gil of ibidem<\/a> posts<\/a>
\n"I just read an article about the US bases being set up in Kuwait, and
\nthe thing that jumped out at me is that these bases also have a Burger King
\nand Baskin Robbins. I never would have imagined, on the other hand, maybe this
\nis a secret weapon…we\ufffdll attack Iraq with our junk food.<\/i>" <\/p>\n

I think that he is on to something, yet we do need to consider proportionality
\nfrom the just war theory. Would it really be proportional to stuff the Iraqi
\npopulations arteries with fat compared to the threat of chemical attack? Wouldn’t
\nthis be an overwhelming retaliation or preemptive heart attack. Would this just
\nbe a modern day policy of MAD (Mutually Agitated Digestion)? Would Saddam Hussien
\ncatch on and force the human shields to eat all of the junk food? Maybe this
\nwhole junk food thing is a gambit from the Bush administration. Could it be
\nthat the proposed war is about oil after all? Cooking oil that is. I heard about
\nthe powerful Wesson Oil PACs and that their high priced lobbyist are pressuring
\nthe Bush administration.<\/p>\n

The other question is would the peace activists consider this a viable alternative
\nto war? If so would they carry signs like:<\/p>\n