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novel idea

I thought about this idea for a novel on my way home.

Part picture book/part story.

The main idea is the setting, which would be Washington, D.C. as the Green Zone.

Pictures would be DC street scenes with blast walls where appropriate photoshopped in.

Might be able to get the rest of the flavor without photoshop, D.C. being D.C.

Hit me in the gut like a punch when I thought of it, which means there's something there that's real with respect to getting the feel of the war across. I think I should do it.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/07/29/world/international-uk-afghanistan-usa.html?ref=global-home

Above is a link to a brief article about the wikileaks release of >90,000 intelligence reports, most of which are raw, essentially consisting of the equivalent of "SALUTE" reports, or the equivalent of 911 calls or "officer in pursuit calls" to give a civilian equivalent.

The fact that Gates and others are on TV or the radio decrying Wikileaks instead of simply ordering someone within the DOD counterintelligence community to shut it down via a plausibly deniable "hacker" attack, demonstrates that either this stuff isn't nearly as serious as they claim, or they aren't serious about the war in Afghanistan.

I suppose there's a third option, which is that we have no idea what we're doing, and the ineffectual flailing on TV and elsewhere should be taken at face value.