Comments on: War Against Terror? I’ll take my chances

By: Snotty McShot

Snotty McShot — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:33:39 +0000

Word.

By: Quim Terfel

Quim Terfel — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:07:20 +0000

Historians are going to have a fieldday with this decade, because so much is recorded. Teachers will use it to show how easy it is for the facists to manipulate your average right-of-centre Joe toward the belief that another holocaust is a good idea.

No “but how could it happen in civilised country?” soul searching will be required. Every little step of the brainwashing process has been carefully recorded, in first-person detail, by a million WarBloggers.

By: Snotty McShot

Snotty McShot — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:20:59 +0000

Yeah, I thought as much.

They hate your freedom, Dave! Be afraid, be very afraid.

By: David Duff

David Duff — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:25:17 +0000

I would try, Snotty, but without wishing to be rude I think it would be beyond you. Just sink back into that bog of ‘Oirish’ mythology and don’t worry your pretty little self about it. Just leave it to us grown-ups!

By: Snotty McShot

Snotty McShot — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:58:39 +0000

“War was declared on 9/11”

Man, you fucking guys have such a raging boner for this fucking war bullshit, don’t you? (In a strictly metaphorical sense in your case, of course.)

Who declared war on who? Why? Who are “we” at war with, and what are “we” at war over? Please also explain how the war in Iraq fits in this context.

By: David Duff

David Duff — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:43:41 +0000

That was a good post, John, and even at one remove, so to speak, it brings home the personal in contrast to the political.

Even so, ‘fings’ are what they are. War was declared on 9/11 and we, meaning ‘the West’ needs must fight it, either now, or later. I don’t think that so far we have fought it very well, or to be precise, very shrewdly, but it was ever thus. Generals (and politicians) tend to start by fighting the last war, not the one they are facing now. But usually they learn – the hard way – and usually at some-one else’s expense!

I don’t pretend to know how it will turn out but matters of great moment depend on the outcome so let us hope that the new leaders of both the US and the UK fight the good fight, or at least, the successful fight. And before anyone jumps in, that does not entail the total destruction of Islam and its adherents.

By: Snotty McShot

Snotty McShot — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:54:32 +0000

“If someone gets you, get them back double”

Well okay, darling, but what in fuck’s name has that got to do with all the tens of thousands of Iraqi corpses?

Kisses, etc.

By: John Brissenden

John Brissenden — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:21:25 +0000

So fuck it, let’s just call it The War For Revenge and bin all this other crap. By the way I’m a card-carrying Atheist, so don’t put me down there with the believers, “sweetheart”.

By: Iqbal

Iqbal — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:34:04 +0000

As a pagan, yes, absolutely it does. It is called revenge sweetheart. If someone gets you, get them back double. If we were still a Christian nation I could understand why you might feel upset, but as we are not, forget that turning the other cheek and obliterate the enemy, and anyone connected with them. You know it makes sense.