and you know that you're the only one to say okay
I have to vehemently disagree with at least some of Steve Gilliard's post inre: the latest and greatest from Tom "Oops I Wrote A Column" Friedman - I don't know how many fucking times you have to say it, but it really all comes down to stop stop stop waging war on the region, stop stop stop buying off witless and greedy authoritarians. Sayeth Tariq Ali:
The real solution lies in immediately ending the occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Just because these three wars are reported sporadically and mean little to the everyday life of most of Europe's citizens, this does not mean that the anger and bitterness they arouse in the Muslim world and its diasporas is insignificant. Establishment politicians have little purchase with the young and this applies especially strongly in the Arab world. As long as Western politicians wage their wars and their colleagues in the Muslim world watch in silence, young people will be attracted to the groups who carry out random acts of revenge.
Tariq also points out that
The aim of the bombers may have been to disrupt London while Bush and Blair hosted the G8 Summit in a remote Scottish outpost (or perhaps even as a warning signal to the Olympic Committee), but the majority of Londoners (as the rest of the country) were opposed to the war in Iraq. Tragically, it is they who have suffered the blow and paid the price for the re-election of Blair and a continuation of the war. Or as John Lanchester, a highly regarded English novelist who once admired Blair, recently wrote of New Labour: "As for its attitude to America, that is comparable only to the 'coital lock' which makes it impossible to separate dogs during sex."
Indeed, being a Man of Resolve is easy when you have a small army toting armfuls of hi-tech weaponry around you at all times.
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