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UK Telegraph: Osama Takes Credit for 9-11: There are anti-war people out there who have suggested Bin Laden’s role was fabricated by the U.S.; I’m guessing maybe half of the ones from Western countries will find this convincing. Another interesting tidbit from the story is that OBL claims credit for an unspecified recent terrorist act in Riyadh. I caught the second half of Bush’s Bush’s UN speech today, and liked a few passages: In this war of terror, each of us must answer for what we have done or what we have left undone. After tragedy, there is a time for sympathy and condolence. And my country has been very grateful for both. The memorials and vigils around the world will not be forgotten, but the time for sympathy has now passed. The time for action has now arrived.Note the word “us.” The U.S. has, as the Chomskyites are more than happy to tell you, “done” bad deeds and “left undone” good ones. But as few Chomskyites will acknowledge, the U.S. has a president who – like the previous one – explicitly expresses the need to take responsibility, and then take action to improve things. Here’s the red meat: In this world, there are good causes and bad causes, and we may disagree on where that line is drawn. Yet, there is no such thing as a good terrorist. No national aspiration, no remembered wrong can ever justify the deliberate murder of the innocent. Any government that rejects this principle, trying to pick and choose its terrorist friends, will know the consequences.I wonder if Saudi banks will have any hard currency left after the princes get a translation of the writing on the wall. New Warblogs and Other Delights: First, here’s most of the top warblogs I have mentioned before (and I know, some of them hate that word). Webloggers I have neglected to recommend until now: young radical capitalist Patrick Ruffini, long-suffering Tabloid.net loyalist Shannon Okey, Libertarian hip-hop fan Alexander Ulmann, heretical idealist Alex Knapp, fuzzy-bellied Ryan Boren, longtime columnist (SJ Merc, recently retired) Joanne Jacobs, space-tourism advocate Rand Simberg, clever ass (ha ha) Kenneth Goldstein, and one-line linker extraordinaire Kevin Whited. Muchas gracias tambien to the eggheads at CalScientist.com, sci-fi book editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden, product architect George Weld, Web designer John Bedard, choral singer Peter Haslehurst, editor Andrew Hazlett of The Occasional, some dude named Carey, plus Matthieu Pommier, Dave Hill, Miriam Frost (I think that’s her name), The Olson Five, Monkey Farm, The Brothers Judd, Karl Martino, Kevin Skomsvold, Knowledge Is Power log, Chris Brown, Swallowing Tacks, and Colorado bombshell Christie. You will surely find some new bookmarkables in this batch. New Traffic Record: Webalizer says I got 9,602 “hits” today, a new all-time record. For you Henry Copelands and Transparency Internationalists out there, there were also 6,766 “files” (number 2 all time) 3,076 “pages,” 2,113 “visits,” and 1,677 “sites” (all records). Who knows what any of it means. My Hitbox stats are mangled – they don’t measure the Warblog at all, so they can’t be trusted. Anyways, thanks to everyone for reading, and to those who have linked to me. I will reward you with rich content over the weekend, but first I've got to wake up real early to catch the double-secret sneak preview of Harry Potter. A Clever New Warblog: Fred Pruitt runs a good one called “Rantburg,” which divides up each day’s action into five paragraph-sized categories: Front Lines, Enemy Territory, The Alliance, Home Front and Fifth Column. Smart, that. ... I will be adding a large new batch of warblogs by no later than tomorrow afternoon, and possibly as soon as this evening. Go Read the Letters Page: Yeah, I know -- there's no standing link here. Also, I should be quoting many of the terrific highlights on this page ... but I have enough "shouldas" in my life right now, so that will just have to wait. Go check 'em out, they're pretty impressive. A Military Victory: Anti-Talibanistas say they’ve captured Mazar-e-Sharif, the AP is reporting (all the TV shows say the same thing, credit AP, then say, incongruously, that “our sources are saying the same thing, but it can’t be independently confirmed”). Anyways, not to be a media critic or anything, but what’s missing from this & other stories I’ve glanced through is – what’s the significance? (Beyond allowing Pentagon reporters in D.C. to say “This is really important for Pentagon officials, who have faced increasing criticism, blah blah.”) What does this mean, militarily, or for the humanitarian effort, or for supply routes, etc? There doesn’t seem to be a preponderance of media fluency with military strategy, I have noticed. Is This Cartoon Funny?: I don’t like jokes about how stupid Americans are anymore. Mostly because it’s not true, at least as far as I’ve experienced. Also, it is unseemly to watch Leftists spit on the very same “working class” it claims to fight for. But maybe I’m just sensitive these days. Just Piles of Great Stuff Over at USS Clueless: How many of you knew who Steven Den Beste was before Sept. 11? It’s a real question – I’d certainly never heard of him, but maybe he’s old hat to the rest of you. Anyways, for those like me, go check this guy’s site out. Right now, in particular, there are about 11 terrific posts in a row. If I were running a news organization – and I will again, at some point – he’d be one of the first hires. Welcome to Prague. The Short Guy Near the Keith Richards Signature on the Wall is the President: Greg McIlvaine reminisces on his first day in Prague. We showed him a pretty good time. One Year Ago Today – An Election-Night Mugging in D.C.: No, a real one. I was in D.C. for the first time ever, and spent 11 hours on Election Day at the Nader 2000 headquarters, zapping out typo-plagued e-mail notes on the surreal scene unfolding (couldn’t stop using that “surreal” word, in fact). Then I walked around the White House for the first time, fell in with a bunch of whooping Young Republicans, watched Brokaw and Russert handle the bizarre non-concession, and then – steps from my hotel – I got threatened to get my head blown off by a guy who wanted my wallet. Somehow, I wrote a post-election analysis column the next day which has odd resonance now, as I re-read it for the first time since. A key theme is the Naderite Left’s intellectually dishonest use of facts – to the point that, on election night, his staffers were ordered to invent a flexible mathematical formula that would “prove” Ralph didn’t spoil the election, regardless of what actually happened. If I was smart, which I decidedly am not, I would turn my boxes full of campaign notes and materials into something people would pay a handsome price for. Until that day… “Read ‘em and Weep”: That’s the name of an impressive batch of filthy Mideast-press links offered by the estimable Thomas Nephew. My prediction of the day: very soon (if not already), the Arabic-translating MEMRI will be attacked by Saudis, leftists and – yes! – former U.S. ambassadors to Saudi Arabia, as an inflammatory Zionist organization. Stay tuned… At Least it’s Warm Outside: In the post below about Norah Vincent’s foolish column on “censorship” et al, I offered to go streaking in my local park if any columnist could be found to have advocated a consistent approach toward Dr. Laura and Bill Maher. And damned if alert reader Timothy Roscoe Carter didn’t e-mail me the following L.A. Times column by … Norah Vincent: : She's the worst kind of periwigged arriviste, who probably would have sunk her show all by herself had GLAAD not strong-armed potential advertisers into reneging on their endorsements.Hope I don’t get arrested…. She Doesn’t Really Mean This, Does She?: I thought we had mostly moved on from the phony censorship/dissent debate, but apparently I was wrong. Get a load of this foolish column in today’s L.A. Times by Norah Vincent: Yanking advertisements from network television shows should also be unconstitutional. […]To sum up Vincent’s principles: If I owned a publishing house that specialized in Yiddish fiction, and I took out regular ads in the New Yorker, and then suddenly David Remnick’s body was invaded by alien Nazis who wanted to print nothing but flattering historical profiles of Adolph Hitler, then Vincent wants a constitutional freaking amendment to prevent me from pulling my ads in protest. It doesn’t matter, in this case, that flattering Hitler and making goofy comments about “cowardly” bombing on your bad teevee show are not equivalent – by Vincent’s prescription, advertisers lose their freedom of choice once their money goes to help people get paid for writing or speaking, and praising Hitler is protected speech in this country. Madison Avenue is “playing Big Brother”? Huh? Good Lord, what hyperbolic tripe. Government control over the actions of advertisers based on their motivations … now that’s some 1984 shit. Someone with a Nexis-Lexis account and a full-time salary should do a quick check on the Bill Maher Defense Team vis-à-vis the Dr. Laura boycott. If any single person besides Nat Hentoff wrote the same thing about both episodes, I will run naked through Griffith Park. Similarly, the first one who catches a commentator in the act of supporting one protest while decrying the other will receive a $10 check from yours truly. Happy Birthday, Prognosis!: I neglected to mention it yesterday, but we just passed the 11-year anniversary of the beer-swamped night in Prague when Christopher Scheer, Jenny Ogar, Laura Pitter, Ben Sullivan, Vladan Sir and I decided to launch Czechoslovakia’s (and the East Bloc’s) first independent English-language newspaper. It was probably the first anti-communist paper ever to be (mis)run by a commune, though you can never be sure … but on its many good days it was damned good, and unlike anything you’ll ever see. We ran not one, but two cover stories on Abkhazia, covered the crap out of the Yugoslav wars, beat back a lawsuit by a commie spy who we identified as such, threw a decent party or two, ran a radio show, printed dismissive letters from someone named Jonah Goldberg, had a subscriber list that included Hunter Thompson and the CIA, raised (scant) money from investors such as Oliver Stone … made many sophomoric errors, failed to cover Prague adequately until converting into a spirited weekly tabloid in the final year, suffered through several dozen internal coup attempts, alienated most everybody, ruined Faith No More’s Trabant (it’s a long story), had long meetings about whether we should keep allowing complete strangers to sleep on our office floor, and generally produced a better paper than you’d expect from bunch of 22-year-old hippies. Here’s what ex-editor John Allison wrote in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, right after the Dutch drug dealer shut us down (another long story) in 1995: Every biweekly issue was produced in an atmosphere of crisis, with 36-hour work days punctuated by naps on sticky communist linoleum floors. We had two telephone lines for 25 full-time employees -- and sometimes (when we didn't pay our bill) they would be cut off for a week at a time; we produced some issues by relying on the pay phone across the block and the ability of our fine writers to behave like carrier pigeons. We built desks by balancing plywood on piles of unsold copies. We didn't have a photocopy machine until late 1993, and then it broke. With the exception of the Czech staff, most of us couldn't speak Czech. Prognosis was, as you might predict, the best place I have ever worked. It was, as co-founder Matt Welch wrote in the final issue, "one of the most ferociously good newspapers any part of the world has ever seen." It seethed with passion and irreverence; it was filled with spirited writing, dramatic photography and breathtaking design; it contained glaring goof-ups and remarkable triumphs. It is an essential historical document for anyone interested in the essence of post-Communist Europe, not merely the facts. It was a place that pushed you to your full potential -- because there was no other way to manage but at full throttle.Happy birthday, Jenny! Tear Down Hypocritical Textile Tariffs: Nick Denton puts perfectly what I have long believed, and applies it to the current crisis – poor countries like Pakistan would get a lot richer a lot quicker if the U.S. and the EU tore down their hypocritical (and to me, immoral) protection for industries like textiles and steel. The anti-globo crowd have been right about at least one thing: the trade rules in many cases have been skewed to protect the more leveraged rich West. True free trade is a radical concept, which would produce many of the results socialists have long claimed to want, most significantly reducing the gap between rich and poor. It is unconscionable that the U.S. has used bullshit “anti-dumping” trade regulations to prevent Poland and other Central European countries, for example, from selling us cheap steel after they overthrew Communism. I’d rather that Polish employment and wages in industrial, labor-intensive sectors be stabilized at the expense of American steeltowns … forcing (the theory goes) yank steelworkers to gravitate toward cleaner, more lucrative brainpower jobs. This is fairly drastic, and has ugly local implications, so I usually don’t talk about it too much. But among this moment’s hinge possibilities is the notion that world trade could be liberalized a whole bunch, or sent into disarray. My biggest fear, after Sept. 11, was that the historical parallel would be 1914, not 1940. WWI ended an era which, by some measures, featured even more free trade and openness on the European continent that we’ve seen in the 1990s. People then thought progress & globalization were inevitable, led by beautiful new technologies…. South Park Discovers Osama's Tiny Little Penis: Great episode tonight, in which Cartman pulls down Osama's trousers, uses several magnifying glasses, and then whips out a large sign -- exactly the way Bugs Bunny used to! -- saying "Tiny, Ain't It?" In fact, the whole last five minutes turns into a Bugs Bunny parody, with Cartman dressing up as a makeup-encrusted Arabian seductress on a camel, which crazy Osama then begins smooching like Pepe Le Peu, while Cartman whips out little signs showing a large screw next to a baseball, etc. I have NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER that the South Park boys (who probably live within walking distance of where I'm typing this), have been reading up on their InstaPundit & Andrew Sullivan, where the Bugs Bunny Theory (or whatever they call it) has been featured prominently. Anyways, I'm too dog tired to look for links, or check basic facts, or do much of anything useful besides sleeping. Comedy Central re-runs South Park episodes quite a bit -- seek this one out. Is it Racist to Suggest Some Immigrants Might Have Terrorist Links? Objectively, no – because some actually might. Still that hasn’t stopped people from jumping all over Australian Prime Minister John Howard for making this allegedly incendiary statement: You don't know who's coming and you don't know whether they do have terrorist links or not -- I just don't know but I think a country has got a perfect right to try [to] find out. And the only way you can find out is for them to be processed in a proper and reasonable fashion.Tim Blair, again, to the rescue of reason. “Dilettantes can get back to the important business of saving Mumia”: So says Michael Kelly today, in a column about the Left Divide and what it means for future politics & rational discussion. Glenn Reynolds has some additional comments worth checking out. Though – obviously! – I’ve been mining the same vein the last seven weeks, this morning I’m wondering about the flip side of the story; i.e., how is Sept. 11 going to affect the right side of the political spectrum. My crude guesses: more Reynoldsian embraces of the country’s wild & rollicking diversity (for lack of a better word), less Puritanical Culture-War hectoring. More libertarianism, especially on the Drug War (imagine – some law enforcement agencies were expending valuable energy harassing dying cancer patients who smoke pot, while Saudi terrorists trained on U.S. soil to blow up the World Trade Center). Bush has already done much to marginalize the race-wedge Republicans; now maybe the gay-bashers will be next. Sure, I’m projecting here, but if we have suddenly been shaken to our senses, with a whole lot of foolishness no longer seeming funny, certainly that applies to Right as well as Left. It is an interesting moment. The Online ‘Flame War’: Nick Denton, thoughtful as always, defends the Web from charges that it’s a “helpmate of modern terrorism.” He then makes some salient counter-points: However, as often as not, when the web and email have not actively misled opinion, they have simply inflamed it. The Palestinian Journalists Association urges Arab and Muslim journalists to make better use of the internet, but then spoils its appeal by saying: “The Jews can and do control the American media from The Washington Post to CNN, but they can't control the flow of the Internet.”I also get a little mention. Thanks, Nick! Welcome, Pittsburghers! Have a good look around, and click on the warblog links to the left (which will be expanded, once Ken Layne wakes up). I hope to visit your fine city in the spring, perhaps to catch the beginning of the baseball season in your pretty ballpark. Great New Content at Warblogletters.org!: We’ve got much talk about the military and the press, rules of engagement for debating, the responsibility of realpolitik, etc. A Pole Dismantles Pacifism: Polish journalist Rafal Geremek has been working at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on a fellowship. Here’s what he has to say about anti-war demonstrations in the U.S., and Pacifism in general: I'm not concerned about the lack of fresh ideas on the American left. I [am] more concerned with how harmful these people are. […]And so on. Thanks to Post-Gazette Contributions Editor John Allison for the heads-up. New Column From Me! The Case Against Saudi Arabia: Speak of the devil! Reform or removal of the House of Saud is no longer a question of moral credibility, I argue, it’s a matter of self-defense. The Friedman-Welch Connection: I spent the weekend finishing up a couple of yet-to-be-printed Saudi-bashing columns that start with insane quotes from the local media, point out that the press is controlled by the government, and conclude that the regime is too out of touch to realize it’s time to shape up or ship out. Today, Thomas Friedman does largely the same thing about Egypt, though I’m guessing his level of expertise is just a twee bit higher than mine. An excerpt: What these Arab regimes still don't get is that Sept. 11 has exposed their game. They think America is on trial now, but in fact it is stale regimes like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which produced the hijackers, that are on trial. Will they continue to let Islam be hijacked by anti-modernists, who will guarantee that the Arab world falls further behind? Will they continue to blame others? Or will they look in the mirror, take on intolerance, and open their societies to a different future? […]Friedman also goes looking for, and finds, voices of moderation and responsibility. He’s B-a-a-a-a-ck! Ken Layne has returned from his Hurricane Honeymoon, and is “working on his next novel.” That means his blog is chock full of good new stuff. And, after a quick Plotting Session, methinks that the sequel to the excellent DOT.CON will be finished forthwith. Unoriginal Thought of the Morning: If the “domestic right-wing Anthrax terrorist” theory turns out to be a diversionary tactic, or at least false, then many many commentators on the Left will have some apologizing to do. Then again, if it turns out to be partially true, maybe I will. Still, one detects a certain gleeful jumping to conclusions (not unlike the immediate jumping to conclusions about “Arab terrorists” and Osama Bin Laden … which turned out to be true). Introducing … Warblog Letters! I have been getting more smart letters than I know what to do with … so I have finally (with the generous help of Ben Sullivan) launched a letters page. There, you can read the kind of elegant writing and vocabulary so lacking here…. We need to back down from imputing scurrilous motives to each other. We need to re-learn how to disagree with each other, good citizens all, without hate. What a shame that we have almost lost, in our national politics, the athletic sense of the word "opponent" - a noble and worthy adversary, against whom we test our abilities and hone our skills.See? So here’s how it works: if you e-mail me something, let me know whether you’d also like (or are willing) to see it posted, hopefully with your name & e-mail address attached. Then it all just depends on my cruel whims & crueler schedule. I will be most interested in publishing the kinds of things that advance or pick apart arguments. That said, I’ve heard a lot of fantastically interesting personal stories from many of you, and I wish there was some way to share some of them with everyone else. If you’ve sent me anything in the past, and feel like you’d like to have it posted, just let me know. Thanks again for visiting. Hey Colin and Dubya! Are You Giving Fuel to Crazy Anti-Semites?: That’s my follow-up question. Sorry to keep dwelling on our Saudi “friends,” but each one of these columns are heinous and require rebuke. Also, there’s that matter of 5,000 pulverized bodies in lower Manhattan. If administration officials are unwilling to call an anti-semite an anti-semite, maybe they just need encouragement. Also, our tax money keeps these rancid fuckers in power. Here’s the latest from the Saudi media, which is the the fifth least free press corps in the world, according to Freedom House: Interestingly, the US media attacks on Saudi Arabia and Egypt run counter to the daily statements of the US president or his secretary of state. Both have been praising the credible support and sincere efforts demonstrated by the Kingdom and Egypt. Then why this media onslaught? A study would reveal their motives. Thomas Friedman, a Jew, accuses Saudi Arabia and Egypt of not being with the US in its war on Afghanistan. The Washington Post even questions the legitimacy of the government in Egypt by saying that the elections were not fair, that freedom of expression is suppressed and that the political situation is in peril.A Little Late for ‘Preparations,’ Pal: Saudi Prince Turki Al-Faisal, the country’s former intelligence chief, has this urgent message for his oppressed citizens: We are living in a world where there are several other religions. Instead of thinking about a bloody confrontation, we should prepare ourselves for coexistence and the exchange of ideas.You’ve been running the country (into the ground) for decades … and you figure now’s the time to let people know they don’t necessarily need to declare war on non-Wahabbist religions? Sayonara, Turki. What’s interesting, when you read this swill, is that Turki is really trying hard to defend the United States to his presumably fanatic people. Unluckily for him, there is an Internet, and his verbal contortions no longer sputter out on the Arabian peninsula. For instance, when he slanders U.S. bombing in Afghanistan as “indiscriminate,” or says that “the Zionists and the terrorist attackers serve[] the interests of the other,” we get to read it right here in beautiful Los Angeles, California. Turki and the rest of his corrupt cousins love telling us that "Americans should re-examine their own actions which bred the feeling of hatred as a logical consequence to their actions." What’s great, is that we will re-examine our policies, and hopefully continue to improve them, bit by democratic bit. And that when we do, the first to suffer will be those whose breed hate (and the hijackers who killed 5,000 on our soil) by inflicting brutality and lies upon their own people. Hey Ari! Did Bush Apologize to the Saudis for U.S. Media Criticism? : This had really better be the first question asked at tomorrow’s White House briefing. Here’s Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, the de facto ruler of the country while King Fahd withers away, describing a phone call he received from President George W. Bush, as reported by the Saudi paper Arab News:The crown prince quoted US President George W. Bush as telling him in a telephone conversation that such reports sought to "break the ties between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States and to damage the Kingdom’s reputation."To recap: the leader of the country responsible for spawning Osama Bin Laden, 15 of the 19 hijackers, and the bulk of Bin Laden’s financing, is now going on record in the newspaper he controls saying that the United States president called him and immediately apologized for criticism of the House of Saud in the U.S. press, then assured him that any government sources to Seymour Hersh et al would be “straightened out.” If that allegation is true, then George Bush owes the American people and media an immediate apology, for groveling like a common wuss in front of a corrupt dictator, and slandering our free press to a country that doesn’t even understand the term. If, as is more likely, the account of the conversation is not true, then I want to hear the correct version, along with an explanation of why we tolerate this penny-ante bullshit anymore. Interesting L.A. Times Opinion Section: More readable columns than usual, though most still suffer from Timesian mediocrity or sudden bouts of incoherence. Economist/foreign policy guy Walter Russell Mead has a pretty good one discussing Bush’s new realpolitik, and forecasting the future role of idealistic foreign policy: Wilsonians need not despair. As the war drags on, the Bush administration will have to fight harder to win the battle for international public opinion. Ultimately, we will have to do more than talk about what we are fighting against and explain what we are fighting for.Sounds a bit fuzzy to me, but whatever. Next, Barbara Ehrenreich, the chronicler of the working class, veers more toward incoherence in a column probing the causes of the Taliban’s misogyny. Here’s the part that interested me: Liberal and left-wing commentators have done a thorough job of explaining why the fundamentalists hate America, but no one has bothered to figure out why they hate women.This illustrates a fallacy, yet points toward a future solution. The fallacy: that commentators have done a “thorough job of explaining why the fundamentalists hate America.” I think they have done a thorough job of projecting their own critiques of America through the eyes of terrorists, while doing a much poorer job of examining why or at least how these America-haters are actually twisted maniacs, as often as not. But the future solution lies in the second half of the sentence, which actually disproves the first. The day we really start understanding the terrorists, the Taliban, Saudi Arabia, Abkhazia, whatever … is the day all brutal regimes should truly quiver. Because if there’s one thing the root-cause Left and the anti-postmodern Right can agree on, it’s that we can no longer tolerate countries that horse-whip women for exposing their eyebrows, or round up accused sodomites for Friday-night beheadings. Next, Stanford linguist Geoffrey Nunberg follows up on my hyperbole-is-immoral column, discusses the supposed death of irony, and concludes that we might witness a re-birth of real irony, as opposed to “cynicism and fatuousness.” Not a moment too soon, I hope. Further along, Robert “I’ve Been Everywhere, Man” Kaplan tells us about his 20-year acquaintance with the late Abdul Haq. And Lefty Marc Cooper chips in with a criticism (mostly warranted, methinks) of Bush II’s rhetorical hostility to the Sandinistas winning tonight’s Nicaragua elections. A pretty good Sunday, for the L.A. Times. Was the Green Gal Politically Profiled?: Glenn Reynolds has a bunch of funny stuff about a Green Party anti-war woman who claims to have been pre-screened and prevented from boarding a flight in Bangor, Maine. Having spent a lot of time around Greens, the part I found most revealing was this comment she made in an interview with the estimable Declan McCullagh. Italics mine:"I put my bags on the table. The two women employees were standing there. [I tried to help them with a stuck zipper.] He grabbed my left arm, he started yelling in my face, 'Don't you know what happened? Sep. 11, don't you know thousands of people died?' I said, 'You can't do that.' He went to grab my arm, and I said, 'Don't touch me.' I saw an older airline guy shake his head, 'No,' and he backed off.And the Green Party wonders why it has a hard time wooing the working class, or anyone outside university enclaves. What a silly woman.  Comments, questions, bad links? Send e-mail to Matt Welch |
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