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Apr. 5th, 2007 02:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionfrom Yahoo:
"It's a tough war," Bush said. "The American people are weary of this war. They're wondering whether or not we can succeed. They're horrified by the suicide bombing they see."
Yet Bush used a horrific tale in Iraq — one in which terrorists put children in a car to get through a checkpoint, then exploded the vehicle — to describe why he won't pull back.
"It makes me realize the nature of the enemy we face, which hardens my resolve to protect the American people," Bush said. "People who do that are not — it's not a civil war, it is pure evil. And I believe we have an obligation to protect ourselves from that evil."
Um, both Sunnis and Shiites are doing that, and for the most part their targets are one another. So what's that, exactly, bad planning among the evil purists? Actually I can't even take the ironic approach, the complete appallingness and mindlessness of this man and his friends and works burn through any annotation. When history judges the fuck out of us I hope it bears in mind that there was a large element of stunned disbelief in our passivity.
"It's a tough war," Bush said. "The American people are weary of this war. They're wondering whether or not we can succeed. They're horrified by the suicide bombing they see."
Yet Bush used a horrific tale in Iraq — one in which terrorists put children in a car to get through a checkpoint, then exploded the vehicle — to describe why he won't pull back.
"It makes me realize the nature of the enemy we face, which hardens my resolve to protect the American people," Bush said. "People who do that are not — it's not a civil war, it is pure evil. And I believe we have an obligation to protect ourselves from that evil."
Um, both Sunnis and Shiites are doing that, and for the most part their targets are one another. So what's that, exactly, bad planning among the evil purists? Actually I can't even take the ironic approach, the complete appallingness and mindlessness of this man and his friends and works burn through any annotation. When history judges the fuck out of us I hope it bears in mind that there was a large element of stunned disbelief in our passivity.
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Date: 2007-04-06 05:43 pm (UTC)I'm commenting, mainly, to give you a tip about a documentary on the Yugoslav break-up, which, if you have three hours to kill, will just infuriate you further. Here: http://parodycentrum.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/the-avoidable-war/
The similarities in how the two conflicts are sold are profound. Those who are willing to profit from death and destruction are very capable at using the structural tendencies of mass media, as well as legal powers, to bolster their efforts. If there can be said to be another side, it needs to get its people just as adept at adopting the forms and structures of the media and law for its own ends.