Thursday, November 06, 2003

FRIEDMAN VS. FRIEDMAN. The boxing match of the year...no, month...no, day...well, whatever...is explained here. More and more, I'm convinced that one of the major reasons the Bush Administration and its supporters continue to get away with so much is because almost no one remembers anything. Thus, many of them can maintain their insufferable sense of moral superiority endlessly -- even when they contradict what they themselves have said in the past, and even when countless facts undermine their most basic... [The Light of Reason] I've noticed this myself. All of the Crusaders seem to be generally either unable or unwilling to remember anything that happened in the past--even the recent past. The exceptions are when one of them makes a historical reference which refutes whatever he's trying to say, as in the case of Bush's recent comparison of Iraq to the Phillipine War. 9:37:27 PM    comment () Saudis 'fear sand shortage'. ... sez the BBC, and yeah, that's the Beeb's headline. The kingdom "has reportedly imposed strict border checks to enforce a ban on the export of sand." The "growing demands of the construction industry," goes the claim, "could lead to a shortage in the desert kingdom." [Hit & Run] I think the BBC has gotten itself confused with The Onion. 2:24:17 PM    comment () THE HAWKS: YEARNING FOR "PUNITIVE EXPEDITIONS" -- AND THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY. Here is yet another lesson regarding the necessity to repeat history, including very tragic history, when we fail to learn from it. From a review of a new book, Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and A History Denied: Long before the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance was set up in the Pentagon to establish democracy in Baghdad on just eight weeks notice before Bush's "shock and awe" invasion was launched, the British empire had a plan to make Iraq the... [The Light of Reason] 9:48:36 AM    comment ()

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