quote and an ironic chuckle...

[katster]

"The network announcer went on to other news, and Randy's phone rang.

"He picked it up, irritated. It was Bill McGovern. 'Did you hear the news?' Bill asked

"'Yes, I'm trying to get more of it.'

"'What do you think?'

"'I don't think anything, yet. I want to hear our side of it.'

"'Sounds to me like we're starting a small, preventive war,' Bill said.

"'I don't believe that for an instant,' Randy said. 'You don't prevent a war by starting one.'"

(Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon.)

It gave me a bit of an ironic chuckle, seeing as that's how it seems to me what Bush is doing. I can only hope it comes out well. (Considering the book's about nuclear holocaust...)

Comments

[lizardling.livejournal.com]

I remember that book. It, along with _Earth Abides_ was one of my favorite books in high school.

[lirazel.livejournal.com]

Golly, I haven't thought about Alas, Babylon in years.

Too true, some of it. I'd be one of the ones to kill myself without my medication, or perhaps just drop dead.