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| Friday, November 19, 2004 |
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Live syndicated or die 
| | RSS has reached the point for me personally, that if your site isn't available via RSS, you're dead to me. |
| | Lots more grist for (and from) many mills, including a since-withdrawn post by Tom Tomorrow, who clearly is not with the RSS program. |
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World War III origins? cont'd
| | My kid (he's 8) just came up, saw me write the first three words in the headline above, said "I don't think there was a World War III." I told him I'm afraid we might be in the beginnings of one, especially with all the assassinations. That's after I wrote the following... |
| | In the south of Fallujah yesterday, US Marines found the armless, legless body of a blonde woman, her throat slashed and her entrails cut out. Benjamin Finnell, a hospital apprentice with the US Navy Corps, said that she had been dead for a while, but at that location for only a day or two. The woman was wearing a blue dress; her face had been disfigured. It was unclear if the remains were the body of the Irish-born aid worker Margaret Hassan, 59, or of Teresa Borcz, 54, a Pole abducted two weeks ago. Both were married to Iraqis and held Iraqi citizenship; both were kidnapped in Baghdad last month. |
| | US and Iraqi troops have discovered kidnappers¹ lairs filled with corpses or emaciated prisoners half-mad with fear, and piles of bodies of men who had refused to fight with the insurgents. As the guerrillas run their last sprint from death, sympathy for their cause is running out among Iraqis. |
| | When not disemboweling Iraqi women, these killers hide in mosques and hospitals, booby-trap dead bodies, and open fire as they pretend to surrender. Their snipers kill U.S. soldiers out of nowhere. According to one account, the Marine in the videotape had seen a member of his unit killed by another insurgent pretending to be dead. Who from the safety of his Manhattan sofa has standing to judge what that Marine did in that mosque? |
| | There's only one snark in the concluding paragraphs: |
| | In a more grateful age, this would be hailed as one of the great battles in Marine history -- with Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Hue City and the Chosin Reservoir. We'd know the names of these military units, and of many of the soldiers too. Instead, the name we know belongs to the NBC correspondent, Kevin Sites. |
| | We suppose he was only doing his job, too. But that doesn't mean the rest of us have to indulge in the moral abdication that would equate deliberate televised beheadings of civilians with a Marine shooting a terrorist, who may or may not have been armed, amid the ferocity of battle. |
| | Suppose? The Journal should dig deeper on that one. Sites is one of the best reporters over there. |
| | AP reports that Australian PM John Howard says the found corpse was most likely Margaret Hassan's. By all accounts she was one of the best examples of humanity our species has ever produced. And she was killed by one of the worst. |
| | In spite of the naysayers, this insurgency will be defeated, and Iraqis will have democracy. In our President we have the political will to do what needs to be done. |
| | And we have the U.S. Marines . . . |
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