Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
War Blogging
Posted on March 16, 2003 in Crosstalk Peace Pointers
Naturally, everyone is upset about the war. Few are the active blogs which have not mentioned it in the last week: some, I suspect, aren’t blogging because of the pain that accompanies their sense of helplessness.
- Chris, of Back to Iraq, reports that at least one U.S. official has paranoically insisted that Iraq might launch a first strike against U.S. forces in the region. Watch and wait. If this happens, flip back in your history books and note how the Second World War began on the pretense of a Polish attack against Germany. “They shot at us first,” said the Nazis. Stay tuned and keep your tagamet handy: this promises to be sickening.
- Raye posted pictures of her local candlelight vigil.
- Crazy Tracy of the quick fingers kyped a quote from Herman Goering from Karen Zipdrive. “George W. Bush Thinks We’re Stupid Fucking Morons” she screams. I think undereducated might be a better term.
- Raed (who lives in Iraq) has been reporting on the preparations for war. He, like the rest of his country, feel trapped between two lunatics. He writes:
Do you know when the sight of women veiled from top to bottom became common in cities in Iraq? Do you know when the question of segregation between boys and girls became red hot? When tribal law replaced THE LAW? When Wahabi became part of our vocabulary?
It only happened after the Gulf War.
- Elkit is posting pictures of vigils from around the world as they arrive.
- Tanya compares the War on Terrorism to the War on Iraq:
Pointless, expensive, ill-advised, fuelled by propaganda, and penalizing the underclass while allowing the perpetrators to keep living their lives of excess. There’s no denying there are problems that need to be addressed in either situation – but I think in both cases the cure is what is going to kill.
- In addition to the Goering quote that Crazy Tracy expropriated from her, Karen Zipdrive published a geo-political knowledge quiz. See how you score.
- Andrea the Serial Deviant writes about the gentrification of refugees from Iraq. “I sure do hope that the 3,000 American bombs miss the people who can’t afford to flee from Iraq.”
- goddess chari seems to be contemplating removing her blessing of good karma from those Republican lawmakers who gave us “Freedom Fries” and the idea that we should exhume all the Americans buried in France. Al-Muhajabah also scoffs at this latter-day McCarthyism.
If you’re getting down reading this stuff, read this web page that I snatched from MJ.
As for the rest of the people on my list, they are either remaining dormant, dealing with more immediate life events, or trying to ignore the whole thing by posting pretty pictures and talking about nature. I, as usual, am riding the line. The ways people choose to deal with the threat of war is not unlike the ways that people express grief over the death of a loved one. Here the loved one is World Peace. Some cry, some scream, some stay silent, some distract themselves. They are all valid responses to this insane situation.
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