September 06, 2003
Saturday Reading
Dwight Meredith is closing up shop. Turns out that he likes writing so much, he's planning to devote more time to it. Let's hope he checks in once in a while to let us know what he's working on.
Daily Kos was not impressed by the Spanish speaking skills of any of the candidates. I thought Dean wasn't that bad, but I don't speak any other languages (typical American), so I'm easily impressed in that regard.
Nathan Newman talks about why unions are good for the economy, and the new political patronage.
From Cursor, why Bush can't win, and why the press only likes some lies, an article which demonstrates some of the features it discusses.
Salon: Documents of Freedom. The Draft Clark movement, and a look at the not quite candidate. The pro-war Dems should come clean, but all were unitedly 'shrill'.
Digby tells us about two more straws, the EPA lies after 9-11, and the crazy sounding allegation of a Bush-Saudi cover up which turned out to be true.
BusyBusyBusy gives a longer than usual piece dissecting George Will's attack on Clark.
The Mad Prophet points us to Tom Tomorrow's moebius strip foreign policy, and a blistering and funny demolition of the neocon's war fantasies at Factivism:
Posted by natasha at September 6, 2003 11:19 AM | TrackBack...We were so sure the Iraqis would rise up once we landed. That's one feature you'll find in every bad military plan ever devised: "and then the people will rise up." That was how Bay of Pigs was supposed to go: "We'll land a few hundred men, and then the Cubans will rise up." Which they didn't, naturally. Every time a lieutenant in some African hellhole talks a half dozen of his barrack drinking buddies into staging a coup he uses the same line: "and then the people will rise up to help us." Cut to him and his friends hanging from the nearest lamppost.
[Whole bunch of interesting historical and strategic tidbits about the British empire, which you should really go read.]
...That's the sort of thing you have to do if you want to run an empire. But you guys, you're just brave enough to get us into trouble and not brave enough to see it through. You want to kick ass, plant the flag on somebody else's land and blow stuff up, and then have everybody on the ground love you for it.
That's not an empire. That's a bedtime story for pussies.