Sunday, January 11, 2004
GREAT POSTS I SHALL PROBABLY NEVER WRITE #1:
Based on what I wrote in Patrick's comments this morning I shall probably never write the long and detailed post about the differences between the British reaction to terrorist attacks (resignation/stubborn refusal to let it ruin our lives) and the US reaction (instant revenge against someone). It would have been brilliant, but I've got Tipping the Velvet in the video recorder and presumerably at any minute Miss Kitty Butler is going to get off with Nan, despite the fact that Nan speaks like the backward girl all the kids in the Special Needs class look down on. Quite how she's supposed to sing later on in the episode I don't know. Anyway, I can't be bothered to do the research to back this thesis up, but it probably will ask whether the American response was due to the forty-odd years of the Cold War where it was always assumed that the Russians were going to attack sooner or later, and whether the British restrained response was because we didn't think we could get away with invading Ireland again.
Well, it looks like the chemical weapons in Iraq were the wrong type of chemical weapons, namely not ones that could have been used against anyone any more. And there seems to be a little confusion over whether anyone is looking for WMD any more? It seems odd that warbloggers think so little of their Governments. The US and UK Governments are supposed to be the best in the world, with billions of dollars/pounds spent on the military complexes of both countries, yet despite that they haven't found the WMD which we are assured exist. Possibly they haven't found them because they haven't tried smashing open Tony Blair's skull as probably the only place they exist is in his mind. He's in big trouble as on both Iraq and tuition fees he's insisted on making this about him, if he's shown to be lacking on either, can he survive? He's threatened to resign on both subjects, can he survive an unsuccessful vote on either? And if he falls, is it going to have a similar effect on Labour that Thatcher's decline and fall had on the Tories?
Based on what I wrote in Patrick's comments this morning I shall probably never write the long and detailed post about the differences between the British reaction to terrorist attacks (resignation/stubborn refusal to let it ruin our lives) and the US reaction (instant revenge against someone). It would have been brilliant, but I've got Tipping the Velvet in the video recorder and presumerably at any minute Miss Kitty Butler is going to get off with Nan, despite the fact that Nan speaks like the backward girl all the kids in the Special Needs class look down on. Quite how she's supposed to sing later on in the episode I don't know. Anyway, I can't be bothered to do the research to back this thesis up, but it probably will ask whether the American response was due to the forty-odd years of the Cold War where it was always assumed that the Russians were going to attack sooner or later, and whether the British restrained response was because we didn't think we could get away with invading Ireland again.
Well, it looks like the chemical weapons in Iraq were the wrong type of chemical weapons, namely not ones that could have been used against anyone any more. And there seems to be a little confusion over whether anyone is looking for WMD any more? It seems odd that warbloggers think so little of their Governments. The US and UK Governments are supposed to be the best in the world, with billions of dollars/pounds spent on the military complexes of both countries, yet despite that they haven't found the WMD which we are assured exist. Possibly they haven't found them because they haven't tried smashing open Tony Blair's skull as probably the only place they exist is in his mind. He's in big trouble as on both Iraq and tuition fees he's insisted on making this about him, if he's shown to be lacking on either, can he survive? He's threatened to resign on both subjects, can he survive an unsuccessful vote on either? And if he falls, is it going to have a similar effect on Labour that Thatcher's decline and fall had on the Tories?
