Friday, July 25, 2003

Japan Votes to Send Troops to Iraq [AP World News] The peacekeeping bill allows Japanese ground troops to provide non-combat support for U.S.-led forces in Iraq. It also gives the government power to send forces to trouble spots around the world to offer medical assistance, repatriate refugees, reconstruct buildings and roads and give administrative advice -- even on missions without U.N. support. I wonder if the Iraqi rebels will make a distinction on the "non-combat support?" I doubt it will help Koizumi's already shaky popularity if Japanese soldiers start dying to support an American empire. 8:09:09 PM    comment () Red Dawn in Iraq. Justin Raimondo on the commie-neocon axis of evil. By the way, Red Dawn was one of Murray Rothbard's favorite movies, and it is a fun and instructive watch these days.... [LewRockwell.com Blog] Does anybody besides myself remember the movie Red Dawn? It's a cold war morality play in which America is invaded, conquered and occupied by the Soviets: the story revolves around the exploits of an underground resistance, consisting mostly of teen-agers, that springs up to combat the Red Army and its collaborators. The resistance starts out small, with minor acts of sabotage, and escalates over time into a well-coordinated and virtually unstoppable general rebellion that ends in the defeat of the occupiers. Our government's rhetoric ö referring to the military subjugation of Iraq as a "liberation" ö is an echo of Red Dawn, where the commissars, Soviet and home-grown, also called their invasion a "liberation." 3:05:14 PM    comment ()

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