If you were the p.r. spokesman for al Qaeda, what would you have to say about the Bali massacre? I think you’d say it was payback for Australians’ support for president Bush’s war on terror. Funny, that’s just what Robert Fisk has just written. Fisk goes on to warn the Brits that they’re next, among others, if they don’t stop backing Bush:
Our support for the United States – an infinitely closer alliance than any support from France – makes Britain the most likely candidate for attack after the US. Then there are the small, more vulnerable nations that give quiet assistance to the American military; Belgium, which hosts Nato HQ; Canada, whose special forces have also been operating in Afghanistan; Ireland, which allows US military aircraft to refuel at Shannon.
Dear Osama. Don’t forget to murder the Irish. They’ve been nice to the Great Satan. (I found this excrescence via Tim Blair’s superb blog from Australia. Don’t miss it in the coming days.) This turn in Fisk’s argument was perhaps inevitable. Fisk bemoaned the massacre of September 11, but now that the West has responded, he will interpret every terrorist attack as self-defense on their part, and every ally of the United States as a sucker for more punishment. He’ll express sadness. And after every new atrocity, he’ll say he told us so.
The Dish 