More good news from Southern Iraq, where the Brits seem to be doing a fantastic job. One question: how did they manage not to collapse as a military force? After all, they allow openly gay soldiers in their units, thus undermining unit cohesion, destroying morale, wrecking troops’ privacy and making it impossible to fight. A miracle against all the odds, I suppose.
A WAR DIALOGUE: Wonderful series of emails back and forth between the editor of the Daily Telegraph, Charles Moore, and the editor of the rabidly anti-war Daily Mirror (of Pilger and Arnett), Piers Morgan. Morgan’s inability to see or think clearly has rarely been more brutally exposed.
A SUICIDE BOMBER: More evidence of Saddamite depravity.
CLIMATE CHANGE: So the Middle Ages were way warmer than our current temperatures. Must have been all those air-conditioners and SUV’s.
SONTAG AWARD NOMINEE: “On the separate question of whether Iraqi acts of war are on a par with those of the coalition, the answer is also simple. Ours are sometimes worse… We, by contrast, are invited to despise the independent al-Jazeera, condemned by Mr Blunkett as a Saddam tool, and soak up good news images. Ignore the nastiness and think instead of the brave ‘rescue’ of Private Jessica Lynch from the hospital ward where she was being treated with all available medical skill.” – Mary Riddell, shilling for Saddam’s thugs, in the Observer.
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