Hello McCarthy
Mar. 27th, 2003 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sombrefanThere was an interesting piece in today's Guardian about the growing intolerance to anti-war protestors in America.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,922632,00.html
Meanwhile salon.com continues to address the war with it's usual brilliant articles. What I like about it, is that some of its columnists are not afraid to attack the left. Much as I like the left, sometimes they really get up my nose with their sanctimous 'holier than thou' twaddle. Still anything is better than those neo-conservatives lunatics running the show at the minute. I never thought I'd said but I miss the days of George Bush Sr and John Major.
And finally.
How the war is reported by TV stations from different countries.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,922678,00.html
And finally finally
What you wont see in the Sun (the UK's biggest selling tabloid and most pro-war paper)
http://media.guardian.co.uk/iraqandthemedia/story/0,12823,921111,00.html
I wonder if anyone else like me thought that this would be a quick war. The pysch-ops campaign and trying to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people does not seem to be working. I know its still early on in the conflict, but some one somewhere at the highest level must be wondering if they made a mistake. But there's no doubt the coalition forces will win the war but keeping the peace may be a different story indeed. I somehow doubt that the Iraqi people will approve of a US military commander running their country in the short term.
It's not the best analogy but I wonder if Iraq will become America's Northern Ireland?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,922632,00.html
Meanwhile salon.com continues to address the war with it's usual brilliant articles. What I like about it, is that some of its columnists are not afraid to attack the left. Much as I like the left, sometimes they really get up my nose with their sanctimous 'holier than thou' twaddle. Still anything is better than those neo-conservatives lunatics running the show at the minute. I never thought I'd said but I miss the days of George Bush Sr and John Major.
And finally.
How the war is reported by TV stations from different countries.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,922678,00.html
And finally finally
What you wont see in the Sun (the UK's biggest selling tabloid and most pro-war paper)
http://media.guardian.co.uk/iraqandthemedia/story/0,12823,921111,00.html
I wonder if anyone else like me thought that this would be a quick war. The pysch-ops campaign and trying to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people does not seem to be working. I know its still early on in the conflict, but some one somewhere at the highest level must be wondering if they made a mistake. But there's no doubt the coalition forces will win the war but keeping the peace may be a different story indeed. I somehow doubt that the Iraqi people will approve of a US military commander running their country in the short term.
It's not the best analogy but I wonder if Iraq will become America's Northern Ireland?
