The Northern Alliance takes Kabul; the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are pinned down in the mountains and effectively neutralized; democracy is restored; Bush was right, the left was wrong; forget the Saudis, forget Palestine; let's put 9/11 behind us and get back to Britney.
chaos is order, all evil has its good side, there would be no love in this world without hate......
The pro-bombing faction is doing a lot of unseemly crowing right now. Norah Vincent in Salon: "We've pulled off a stunning coup literally overnight, and we've done so in little more than a month of precision bombing. But, all the while, a ceaseless cacophony of negativity has been wafting from the haughtiest liberal corners of the homefront press." Christopher Hitchens in the Guardian: "Well, ha ha ha. It was obvious from the very start that the United States had no alternative but to do what it has done. It was also obvious that defeat was impossible. The Taliban will soon be history. Al-Qaida will take longer." Obviously these people had their doubts, and have been sweating out several weeks while the antiwar faction took the higher moral ground. My question is, what have we, the U.S., won with the retreat of the Taliban? Another impoverished country to manage, until we get bored with all the chaos and walk away? Steve Perry has a good analysis in Counterpunch of the mess we're about to inherit, even as Hitchens and Co. are still gloating.
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- tom moody 11-13-2001 4:46 pm
chaos is order, all evil has its good side, there would be no love in this world without hate......
- Skinny 11-14-2001 3:27 am [add a comment]
The pro-bombing faction is doing a lot of unseemly crowing right now. Norah Vincent in Salon: "We've pulled off a stunning coup literally overnight, and we've done so in little more than a month of precision bombing. But, all the while, a ceaseless cacophony of negativity has been wafting from the haughtiest liberal corners of the homefront press." Christopher Hitchens in the Guardian: "Well, ha ha ha. It was obvious from the very start that the United States had no alternative but to do what it has done. It was also obvious that defeat was impossible. The Taliban will soon be history. Al-Qaida will take longer."
Obviously these people had their doubts, and have been sweating out several weeks while the antiwar faction took the higher moral ground. My question is, what have we, the U.S., won with the retreat of the Taliban? Another impoverished country to manage, until we get bored with all the chaos and walk away? Steve Perry has a good analysis in Counterpunch of the mess we're about to inherit, even as Hitchens and Co. are still gloating.
- tom moody 11-16-2001 7:16 am [add a comment]