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[Schadow]

As I listened this morning to the account of a U2 photo plane being down in "southwest Asia" with the loss of the pilot, my mind strayed to a scenario in which the U2 was down in a hostile place and the pilot survived.

The White House Situation Room prepares the place with all the briefing charts, satellite photos, and lists of options. The recommendation of the National Security Advisor and the Chairman, Joint Chiefs, is to 1) rescue the pilot and, 2) bomb the wreckage of the U2 to destroy the intel-gathering equipment before it falls into the hands of the enemy. It is acknowledged that the airspace intrusion to accomplish the mission, as well as the bombing, would be regarded as an act of war by the country involved. All is ready and in walks Hillary Rodham Clinton, forty-fourth President of the United States and her Chief of Staff, Sydney Blumenthal.

President Clinton is remembered as the person who, as she and her husband (#42) first occupied the White House, noticed a military uniform and decreed that no military uniforms would be allowed in the White House. She is also the person who, at that time, decreed that anyone seeing her in the West Wing should duck into the nearest office and not emerge until she had passed. And, if anyone couldn't make it to an office, they were to avoid eye contact with her at all costs.

Now, in the basement Situation Room, a pilot's life is at stake, compromise of sensitive intel equipment is probable and it will take an act of war to solve the problem.

At that point, my nightmare ended without resolution leaving me with a state of depression which has lasted all day. I'll never know how it turned out because the dream cannot be continued tonight.

Besides, the possibility that this woman should ever be in such a position is a nightmare in it's own right.

Schadow
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Capt, 8th U.S. Army, Korea '53 - '54

[GM Strong]

Capt., this dream should remain as such and never become real. this Red Queen as I call her is to be feared and opposed. Salute.
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8th Army Korea 68-69

[kate]

wow Schadow, chilling thoughts....
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