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January 10, 2006
Famous Fables (And Some Not So Famous)
The other day someone forwarded to me a little essay that tried to predict how a pre-emptive strike against Iran might play out. There was some value in the story, I suppose, in that the reader was reminded that Iran is a far more powerful country than Iraq and that military operations are always unpredictable. But the piece was based on a string of assumptions that seemed very shaky to me (US carriers sunk by Exocet missiles; Mayor Bloomberg declaring martial law in NYC after gas hits $10 a gallon).
I'm not providing links, because when I followed the trail back to the article's parent site, I was flabbergasted to find myself up to my eyebrows in conspiracy theories and anti-semitic (oh excuse me, anti-Zionist) rants. I knew of course that sites like this exist, but it's still pretty weird when you find them.
So it was with great interest that I see that Chirol at Coming Anarchy recommends a very interesting State Department website that debunks a bunch of common conspiracy theories ("did a plane really hit the Pentagon?"; "AIDS as a bioweapon", etc.). And check out Chirol's discovery of the takeover of the Amazon basin by a joint US/UN protectorate!
This website won't do much to help those that really believe that stuff, but I think it's handy to have a lot of these fables categorized in one place, along with their refutations.
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