Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Juan Cole on Salon puts it better than I could:
>
> http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/07/08/blowback/index.html
Well...I have run a gamut of emotions in the last days, unique even for
me. Cold-turkey withdrawal from tobacco products starting Tuesday 2 PM
is not "helping." Oddly the temporary (it damn well better be) physical
and emotional discomfort I'm experiencing is making me far more cautious
than usual about what I say. Maybe....
Bush's lost opportunity in Afghanistan? It's odd that implicit in
Cole's comment was the idea that he had no problem with "us" going in
there and turning the country into a WalMart. What happened, then, if
there is some level of proof (any level will do) that we could have had
Osama at Tora Bora but let him escape? If he was allowed to escape, who
allowed it, who held the back door open just a crack? I do not happen
to think the US military command is made up of jerks. Who, then, might
have misled them and to what purpose? Why is Osama ben Ladin worth more
to us running around than suspended in a cage like Iago at the end of
Welles' _Othello_?
I cannot agree about Blair, not this time. I was driving in yesterday
morning when Blair spoke on the BBC. The phrase "trembling with
barely-controlled rage" is about right. It was like the guy snapped. I
would LOVE to think something inside Tony Blair was awakened. To what?
That he made a deal with the Devil, and that he is going to take a more
active role to combat the threat to his country. James Bond is a myth,
but MI-6 may not be. Or is it, Brits? You tell me--enquiring minds
want to know. You think he will leave Dick Cheney to manipulate only
one man?
By contrast Bush sounded like Bush. "No more of that, Master Shallow,
no more of that."
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