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| Tuesday, August 13, 2002 |
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Including best use of Flash in the history of the Republic 
| | If you read nothing else today, or this year, make it this. |
The train has left the station, but it's never too late to jump on
Don't roll the credits just yet
I'm just wondering if there's a Burning Bird festival going on in the desert. A man with burning gas isn't that big a deal, right? But a bird would be cool.
To dim with faint praise
| | But it's clear the author isn't on top of her material here. Otherwise she wouldn't write "And while most online harangues presumably lack the public profile and scathing eloquence of history's most redoubtable pamphleteers..." |
| | Presumably? Well, 500,000 is a pretty big haystack, so why not look for those kinds of needles at the top? It won't be long before you find Andrew Sullivan, a gent with a high public profile whose eloquence is a big reason he's up there. Here he is, scathing the New York Times: |
| | This is preposterous. The only reason invading Iraq is being discussed at all is because of September 11 and what it taught us. It taught us that we are extremely vulnerable to terrorist assault, that these murderous fanatics are capable of anything, that they would use weapons of mass destruction in a heartbeat if they could get them. It is no secret that Iraq is the prime potential source of such weapons, and it is headed by a despot who has used them himself, and would dearly love to deliver them to America. What more do we need to know? The far-left notion that this is a cynical war for "protecting American interests in the Middle East" is absurd. Such a war might indeed make the Middle East a safer place, but the war is about protecting America and the West, as well as liberating the Iraqi people from one of the most evil tyrants in history. That the Times cannot or will not see this shows that they have learned nothing from the catastrophe of last year. |
| | By the way, this is the best summary of the warblog case I've seen so far. Nothing in it about "humiliating the Arab world," either. |
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