March 04, 2003

WELL, AT LEAST WE LEARNED

WELL, AT LEAST WE LEARNED SOMETHING

The Khalid Shaikh Mohammed arrest has already provided us one useful piece of evidence: that despite all fan claims to the contrary, Robert Fisk's sources just suck.

Posted by BruceR at 12:35 AM

BEHIND THE TIMES, SULLY Andrew

BEHIND THE TIMES, SULLY

Andrew Sullivan has to catch up on the extent of the plans for anti-war sabotage. Even Canada's national newspaper published a screed from ex-columnist Naomi Klein last week that was essentially a call to move now from protests to active civil disobedience. Klein carries a lot of weight. There will be clashes between American troops and protester-saboteurs at home once the shooting in Iraq is in earnest, and people will get hurt. No, that's not an argument for any particular course of action: just a prediction. In Stryker's neck of the woods it's already starting. (Here, I fully expect to get the order to keep our uniforms in our lockers and change only when we get to the armoury soon, just as we did during the Afghan fighting: Stryker's right, it's all about avoiding assaults on the street. For the record, I have only ever been attacked while in uniform once, and in that case the man was clearly deranged for reasons entirely unrelated to any international situation at the time.)

Posted by BruceR at 12:21 AM