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Wednesday, April 09, 2003

"Mission Accomplished"
Hmm... the news images are seemingly encouraging, the rationalizations are plentiful. So, why is it that I still feel... nervous? Like those moments near the end of the horror film where the over-confident relax in presumed victory, pop a beer and go to sleep with both eyes closed... and just then... that other proverbial shoe drops. They are taken within the arrogance that serves as their undoing. And the full consequential weight of what is truly to about to begin becomes soberingly clear.
Like the sensibility in the movie "Alien" that seems to end in triumph...
yet gives rise to it's sequel...
"Aliens."