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Wednesday, September 08, 2004 |
 This original fourth generation war article (1989) is amazing in its foresight.
4:45:42 PM 
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Attacks in Iraq on US forces now exceed 70 a day. There are even more against Iraqi forces.
4:09:48 PM
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Garrison Keillor. The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous.
12:36:32 PM
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NYTimes. TAZ proliferation in Iraq. Fallujah, Samarra, Ramadi... Decentralized, organic Islamic order on the march.
8:29:39 AM
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WT. Rumsfeld puts the spin on the war in Iraq. Asked whether the enemy is weaker, he said, "It's hard to say that when you've just gone through a week or two where you've peaked in terms of the number of incidents. And my guess is they see they're losing. In fact, the guerrillas in Iraq have never been stronger by all objective measures. The only thing I can think of that would lead him to this conclusion is the bodycount metric. This is an amazingly misleading metric. High bodycounts do not equal victory. This is a war that is fought in the moral/economic realm.
7:33:31 AM
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This is hilarious. I just saw a clip of Dick Cheney on TV claiming that if we elect Kerry in the fall, we will be attacked again. First, the claim is totally false. We will be attacked again regardless of who is in office. Second, Bush is the best thing that ever happened to al Qaeda. Bush's reelection is so important to al Qaeda that it is likely to hold off on its next big attack (likely in Saudi Arabia) until the election is over. They don't want to spoil it.
6:57:10 AM
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A backgrounder (a little opaque) on the gangsterism in Nigeria's oil capital.
6:21:26 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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