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Tuesday, July 09, 2002
What a dynamo Stephen Green is. In addition to "investing," he finds time to compose the second-worst weblog I've ever stumbled across. That, though, is not enough for the man from Colorado Springs; his wellspring of energy compels him to continually negotiate new outlets. Today he takes up the "White Man's Burden," or at least assigns it to his brethren further down the socio-economic scale.
Green links to an almost bearable WSJ piece on the necessity of helping Afghanistan along, a laudable idea though the author argues for it not on humanitarian efforts but as a means of furthering Muslim humiliation - the apparently necessary precondition for the concession of political rights to the populations of the petro-rich regimes America so loves.
The WSJ contributor limits intervention to Afghanistan, at least in the above piece. Green, however, does not. He continues to compile an ever-lengthening list of targets for attack. "The alternative," Green assures us, "is more holes in the ground of Manhattan. Or a hole where Manhattan used to be." I did not know that.