The Concatenate

The Age has the terrifying news that, following their efforts to drown Australia’s eastern seaboard with their tsunami last week, the sneaky New Zealanders have edged 30 centimetres closer to us. In a sweeping piece of misdirection their dastardly scientists are trying to downplay the move:

With the countries separated by the 2250-kilometre-wide Tasman Sea, the 30-centimetre closing of the gap in New Zealand’s south-west won’t make much difference.

It’s Salami tactics all over again!

The excellent Asian Defence blog brings word that India is planning on launching it’s first nuclear submarine INS Arihant (destroyer of enemies) in the next two weeks.

Indians not being publicly keen on the demon drink, the wife of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s, Gursharan Kaur, will christen her with an auspicious coconut.

She’s planned to be able to fire nuclear tipped ballistic missiles and to be part of a three ship class.

One might speculate that with India already well practiced in aircraft carrier operations, and soon with nuclear submarines, that Australia’s planned naval build up is nothing to do with China, but rather our Indian friends.

Word has come through the Robert McNamara has died.

Anyone who wants to understand the history of the last 60 years has to have seen the documentary “Fog Of War”.

The architect of both the firebombing of Tokyo, and the worst of the Vietnam war, he was a rare monster, able to commit atrocities across history.

But he always justified it against his work in the invention of seat belts in cars, and the lives that saved.

It would be nice to know how St Peter has made the final judgment on this one.