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It’s difficult to know who we’re supposed to be terrified of any more.
But one thing is certain: the US and UK governments consider it our patriotic duty to be terrified of someone. Whole security and surveillance industries of global dimensions are being spawned and supported by government money, and people are getting killed in putatively counterterrorist wars, so it’s essential that public fear be sustained. We just lack consistency on who the Diablo du jour should be…
Unfortunately for the Bush/Blair team, Kim Jong-il is the wrong monster very much in the wrong place. Over 140,000 US troops in Iraq still can’t secure the little stretch of road between Baghdad Airport and the Green Zone. A military crisis in east Asia, everyone knows, is far beyond any US capacity to address.

(From The Register)

pax et bonum

Article posted at 09:15am on 17 October 2006
Category: Politics, General

I’m not sure, and perhaps I’m regurgitating cliches, but perhaps it’s Bush and Blair we need to be afraid of. I mean… who gets to choose who should have access to types of weapons, and who shouldn’t?

Jo () (URL)
9:23pm on 17 October 2006