http://neveryetmelted.com/2007/01/13/a-miss-and-a-major-catch-just-let-go/ The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. -- D.H. Lawrence Fri, 25 May 2012 04:50:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://neveryetmelted.com/2007/01/13/a-miss-and-a-major-catch-just-let-go/comment-page-1/#comment-86954 Robert Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:57:27 +0000 http://neveryetmelted.com/?p=2071#comment-86954 In circumstances like this, I recommend we take a play from the old KGB playbook. During the brief interval in which we have them we should introduce something slow, insidious and invariably fatal. Polonium, perhaps. Something that, you know, sends a message while remaining - under the rules of diplomacy as practiced elsewhere - just barely deniable. "Gee, Polonium? You guys must have a WMD/nuclear program that he's in close contact with. He should have been more careful. Pity." In circumstances like this, I recommend we take a play from the old KGB playbook. During the brief interval in which we have them we should introduce something slow, insidious and invariably fatal. Polonium, perhaps. Something that, you know, sends a message while remaining – under the rules of diplomacy as practiced elsewhere – just barely deniable. “Gee, Polonium? You guys must have a WMD/nuclear program that he’s in close contact with. He should have been more careful. Pity.”

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