The tomdispatch piece is excellent, ALison, as most of his are.
Frightening, in its implications.
I thought this bit especially pertinetn, as I have wondered ever since
9/11 why anyone thought W actually responded well:
And don't even get me started on comparisons to Bush administration
behavior from the moment, also in Crawford in August 2001, that the
President and his advisors ignored the infamous CIA daily intelligence
briefing on Osama bin Laden ("Bin Laden determined to attack inside the
U.S."), delivered at a length and with a simplicity that even George
Bush should have been able to absorb. Speaking of déjà vu all over
again, his recent behavior re: Katrina echoed strangely his 9/11
behavior. After all, on 9/11, he first sat paralyzed in a classroom in
Florida, then boarded Air Force One and headed not for Washington but
(gulp…) for Louisiana. It was an act of panic if not cowardice that was
quickly covered over when he finally did make it to Washington and
later New York City, talking tough and launching his war against Evil.
And what follows.
If you haven't done so, read it all (including the links).
Doug
On 5-Sep-05, at 12:37 AM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> ...also excellent commentary on tomdispatch
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> http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=19806
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> Best
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> A
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> Alison Croggon
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> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
> Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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not random, these
crystalline structures, these
non-reversible orders, this
camera forming tendencies, this
edge of greater length, this
lyric forever error, this
something embarrassingly clear, this
language we come up against
Kathleen Fraser
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