There is an old Arab saying I’m hearing more and more from Iraqis, I will side with my brother against my cousin, but with my cousin against the foreigners.
– Paul Wood on BBC Reporters’ Log, 11:51GMT
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March 31st, 2003 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
 So while the war in Iraq might only be beginning, the pundits of the Blogosphere can already register a victory. It’s a bloggers’ world. We only link to it. March 29th, 2003 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Getting shot at was not that bad, just the getting shot part sucked. March 27th, 2003 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
Our present day military commanders probably think in private that Old Nosey had it about hundred times easier on the PR front than they do. March 24th, 2003 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
Last Friday, the Mises Institute published a special edition of their daily article containing nothing else but quotes by von Mises on the subject of war. The quotes are hard to disagree with, apart from their mistaken application to the current situation. No distinction is made between using war as a means of conquest, expanding one’s power and using war as a defensive measure, protecting one’s security, freedom etc. For those who believe the US and the UK are engaged in the former, I shall leave them to their struggle against the neo-imperialists… For the rest, I retaliate with a small collection of quotes that make such a distinction:
OK, this is not going to win the war, but it will have to do while we are waiting for our logins for The Command Post warblog! March 24th, 2003 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes. March 18th, 2003 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
The Parliamentary Conservative Party is filled with people who despise principles too much even to see the value of pretending to have any. March 16th, 2003 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
More than half a century of experience shows that the U.N. is a theater of hypocrisy, a sink of corruption, a street market of sordid bargains and a seminary of cynicism. It is a place where mass-murdering heads of state can stand tall and sell their votes to the highest bidder and where crimes against humanity are rewarded. March 3rd, 2003 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)
Michael Moore is just like P. J. O’Rourke, only without the wit, the humour and the insight March 2nd, 2003 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
The government announced today that it is changing its emblem to a condom because it more clearly reflects the government’s political stance. A condom stands up to inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks and gives you a sense of security while you are actually being screwed. Damn, it just doesn’t get more accurate than that!  March 1st, 2003 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
I don’t fault Dan Rather for going to Baghdad. If someone had interviewed Hitler in ‘39 for three hours, we’d prize the tapes as an invaluable historical document. February 28th, 2003 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
Everyone is reactionary about subjects he understands. February 27th, 2003 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
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