March 28, 2003
Long strange week [ Rants ]
What a long strange week it's been...
Been busy at work and at home. War's going, it's very odd to listen to the daily War in Iraq updates on WAMU in the morning and evenings. Having this level of press coverage with embedded reporters, daily news conferences and almost hourly PR battles between the Pentagon, CENTCOM, the White House and Tony Blair on one side and the UN, Iraq, Jacques Chirac and the global anti-war protesters on the other makes for something more resembling a dark satire than a war. Will the Dixie Chicks apologize? What's the latest civilian casualties from Iraq? Do the Academy Awards winners care any more about Donald Rumsfeld's opinion on their movies than he cares about their opinions on the war? Are we "bogged down", "running out of steam", or even better, "in a quagmire" after less than 10 days of warfare?
You get sick of listening to this self-feeding news cycle of rumor and leaks and conferences and allegations and plain old horse shit flying over the airwaves and RF bands after a while. I mean, here I am, former Socialist and child of the Brave New World of the Nineties, siding more with the guys giving briefings from Camp Doha. They seem far more connected with reality than anyone else.
Posted by edobbs at March 28, 2003 10:05 PM
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