Will to Arabs: Gaza is Your Problem

It is done. The Jew hater Claudine Gay, after humiliating herself and Harvard, has resigned in disgrace. We emphasize once more that it is not hard to not plagiarize. This is not the end of DEI. Nor is it the beginning of the end of DEI. It's not even the end of the beginning.* Harvard is still gay and will probably replace this diversity higher with another diversity higher. 

The great Stephen L. Miller** suggests Harvard make Condoleezza Rice president. An interesting idea. Rice was very wrong in the long run, of course. But this blog maintains she's a neat woman. An accomplished academic, Rice has written several books (unlike Claudine Gay). She's a skilled pianist. She speaks Russian. And by hiring Rice, the Harvard HR department could check off three diversity boxes. One drawback, Rice likes the Dallas Cowboys. Nobody's perfect. Why not? 

You say you want war with Hezbollah. The Times of Israel has an article about Hezbollah's massive and sophisticated tunnel system which amounts to hundreds of kilometers. The article discusses the fascinating independent effort to uncover and map out the tunnel system. Surely the IDF has a plan for Hezbollah's tunnel system. You know what the Imams say. 

No one really knows what happens to Gaza once the war is over. We've heard some people say the Israelis should reoccupy the Strip. In the short term yes, in the long term no. No, ney, nyet, nein, la! Reoccupation means tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers in Gaza. It means check points, and ID verification, and bomb sniffing dogs and probably COIN. This ain't 2006. No. Better to just create a pile of smoldering rubble and walk away and say, 'Hey, Arabs, you deal with this.' 

We read the last chapter of World War 1990: Norway. The scenes feel a bit short, but that may not be a problem. We like it when novels are differentiated, also chapters. This keeps the reader on his toes. We still need to read the concluding chapter. Oh, and the Banak Home Guard raid chapter! Then we answer the questions in our notes and fill in the gaps. From there we write the epilogue showing the destruction of the Soviet Northern Fleet. We've still no idea how to do that. 

Here's what we wrote for a space war idea last year. Okay, maybe this novel doesn't take place in the far future. 

A reader asks, 'What is 2543?' Good question. This is a novel about 'mundane' sci fi, where man has colonized the solar system but is also confined to the solar system. No warp. No FTL. This would be derivative of The Expanse, and portrays a universe where Earth and Mars are at odds, with Earth standing in for ancient Athens and Mars standing in for ancient Sparta. A wormhole opens up and bam, an alien fleet arrives and Earth and Mars have to fight side by side. We haven't worked out the specifics of these aliens at all. But they need one hell of a back story. 

2543 would have a heavy speculative component with a lot of work on Martian culture. Martians would be kind of like Texans, Albertans, and/or South African Boers. They'd be tough, independent, respectful of the land to the point of worship. But with a deep rift between Martian lifestyles. City dwellers (almost Earthmen) versus dome farmers, vs minors, etc etc. Mars has constant political debate about ties to old Earth culture. Many Martians have taken Martian names, usually after geographic features. At his point the average Martian is a racial polyglot. 

*Note, we are borrowing this verbiage from Winston Churchill. See how that works?

**The idea is Miller's but we're playing with it. And all one must needs do is site the originator of the idea, then one may have all the fun with said idea that one wants.