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About That Interview – The Automatic Earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michael Moore once famously \u2013 though by no means famously enough yet, because he was so dead-on \u2013 said that \u2018you can\u2019t declare war on a noun\u2019. If only Americans had paid better attention. That would have shone a whole different light on, if not outright prevented, insane, expensive and terribly deadly concepts such as the \u2018war on drugs\u2019 and the \u2018war on terrorism\u2019. Now it looks as if John McCain is fishing for a fresh noun to declare war on.<\/p>\n

Talking about Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Franco\u2019s \u2018The Interview\u2019 movie, and the hackers known as \u2018Guardians of the Peace\u2019 who made Sony Pictures pull the movie\u2019s Christmas release, McCain told CNN\u2019s State of the Union that\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s more than vandalism. It\u2019s a new form of warfare that we\u2019re involved in and we need to react, and react vigorously.\u201d<\/i>President Obama earlier said the opposite, that it\u2019s not war, but vandalism.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d say it\u2019s neither, it\u2019s a bunch of hackers who penetrated Sony\u2019s digital systems quite deeply, encouraged by the apparent lack of true security used to protect the systems. In essence, I don\u2019t understand what either Obama or McCain are doing talking about the issue in the first place. The FBI claims they are certain the hackers are North Korean, but they have provided no proof of that claim. We have to trust them on their beautiful blue eyes.<\/p>\n

I think if anything defines 2014 for me, it\u2019s the advent of incessant claims for which no proof \u2013 apparently \u2013 needs to be provided. Everything related to Ukraine over the past year carries that trait. The year of \u2018beautiful blue eyes\u2019, in other words. Never no proof, you just have to believe what your government says.<\/p>\n

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