(Note to literalists: the Watched column presently contains only a smattering of 'warblogs' because the facilitator of the template-change--Dr. Menlo--is not very familiar with them, and will be adding more as they are sent to him. Also, this blog may contain areas of allusion, satire, subtext, context and possibly even a dash of the surreal: wannabe lit-crits beware.)
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[Watch this space for: Pentagon and Petroleum, The Media is only as Liberal as the Corporations Who Own Them, Wash Down With, and Recalcify]
In quick succession the world saw these Bush Jr Leaguers repudiate the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, the International Criminal Court, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), an international convention to regulate the trade in small arms, a verification Protocol for the Biological Weapons Convention, an international convention to regulate and reduce smoking, the World Conference Against Racism, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems Treaty, inter alia. To date the Bush Jr Leaguers have not found an international convention that they like. The only exception to this rule was their shameless exploitation of the 11 September 2001 tragedy in order to get the US House of Representatives to give Bush Jr so-called "fast-track" trade negotiation authority so as to present the American People and Congress with yet another non-amendable fait accompli on behalf of American multinationals, corporations, banks, insurance companies, the high-tech and biotech industries, Wall Street, etc. The epitome of "globalization," American-style.
. . . There very well could be some itty-bitty "rogue states" lurking out there somewhere in the Third World. But today the United States government has become the sole "rogue elephant" of international law and politics. For the good of all humanity, America must be restrained. Time is of the essence! [more]
. . . via Jorn's Robot Wisdom, actual blog-godfatha . . . I can hear the warblog hive-mind churning now: "If a) = critical of US, push b): 'You are Anti-American!'" . . . if you are growing a plant and want to prune the dead leaves from that plant, would that make you "anti-plant?" If you are driving a car which slips on a spot of ice, and starts to go off the road, leading to your imminent death, and you turn the wheel so that you avoid that death--would that make you "anti-car?" And yet if you criticize what your own government is doing (in a supposed democracy! where quark power allegedly rules!), especially when what your government is doing is leading to the deaths of innocents (you know death--that from which not even the National Review can penetrate), then you are "Anti-American." Well. I don't know about that, but I'll tell you one thing: I'm certainly anti-Horowitz. posted by Dr. Menlo11:26 PM
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The Watchers
WBW: Keeping track of the war exhortations of the warbloggers.
