Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Share

Believing that this killer whale acted alone is a fool's errand.  This is clearly a harbinger of future killer whale attacks.  I demand that the Department of Homeland Security launch a Killer Whale Division immediately.  These killer mammals of the theme park ocean must be brought to heed. 

Some analysts might argue that this is simply a misunderstanding, and that better communication would help.  This is national security naivite at its most extreme.  Indeed, according to the Los Angeles Times, this whale "had been involved in two previous deaths, including one at the water park in 1999."  I bet authorities are Mirandizing the whale as I type this. 

Negotiating with killer whales will accomplish nothing -- after all, they are killer whales.  We cannot rest unless we have put the largest mammals in the world in their proper place. 

 
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BLUE13326

2:13 PM ET

February 25, 2010

Call it stimulus and you

Call it stimulus and you might get a few million dollars thrown your way to save or create a job or two.

 

HANMENG

2:44 PM ET

February 25, 2010

People should be forbidden from getting into the water

Even swimming pools. You never know where killer whales might be lurking.

 

STATSGURU

3:40 PM ET

February 25, 2010

Killer Whales

This killer whale has a lot in common with pedophile priests. Instead of dealing with the problem, they just moved the whale somewhere else.

 

F1FAN

3:45 PM ET

February 25, 2010

Global Warming

Just say that the killer whales are becoming more aggressive due to global warming, and BAM! a billion dollars to study it.

 

BOOKFISHER

4:03 PM ET

February 25, 2010

Its not just the serial killer whale

its also the sushifishstealing spermwhales, the suicide attacks on our shores and of course the ever plotting dolphins.

America needs to toughen up and not freewheel in the War on Whales, far to long the North Atlantic nations and Japan have fought alone in this battle of will and blubber

P.S. In the view of war on terror and Iraq, please dont bomb Cardiff

captcha: stewed Love

 

SCOTTGOOSE

10:16 PM ET

February 25, 2010

Ha gold, oddly enough glenn beck said the same thing today

I hate compare Dr. Drezner with the lunatic Beck, but he made the same tongue-in-cheek remarks this afternoon. The former obviously wrote this first, and is much more realistic. But the idea was the same, and its interesting that minds from two different wavelengths jumped to the same conclusion, because the message was the same: was he an isolated extremist? Was this a pre-meditated attack? This must have been a systemic failure.

While so easy, great article as always Professor.

 

JORDANC

12:42 AM ET

February 26, 2010

Finally...

The Coast Guard will finally have a chance to prove itself as the toughest branch of the military.

 

Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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