Georgia On My Mind

August 18, 2008

By Steve Klinger.

From today’s Democracy Now! the following news account describes a research initiative that could have wide-ranging implications:

US Military Funds Mind Reading Researching

The US military has issued $4 million in grants to university researchers to study ways to read people’s thoughts. According to the Associated Press, the military says the research could someday lead to a gadget capable of translating the thoughts of soldiers who suffered brain injuries in combat or even stroke patients in hospitals. But critics say such mind-reading technology could be used during interrogations. The project is a collaboration among researchers at the University of California, Irvine; Carnegie Mellon University; and the University of Maryland.

Hmmm… I heard a test version of the gadget was tried on President Bush but produced no results.

This would be in keeping with the cerebral activity shown by the following statement he issued last week after Russia invaded the sovereign space of Georgia:

President Bush: “With its actions in recent days, Russia has damaged its credibility and its relations with the nations of the free world. Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the twenty-first century.”

Uh, excuse me, Mr. President, but there’s a little problem with that statement.

A country that damaged its credibility and relations with the nations of the free world?

Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the twenty-first century?

How about invading and occupying a sovereign nation and overthrowing its government and killing untold thousands of civilians on the basis of forged and non-existent evidence of perceived aggression and links to terrorism? How’s that for damaging your credibility and pursuing a foreign policy based on bullying and intimidation?

At least the Georgians actually conducted a military operation that provoked Russia.

What is George Bush’s excuse? When the vegetarian version of the mind-reading gadget becomes available maybe we’ll find out.

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