Monthly Archives: October 2003

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Why IraQ?

This entry was posted in bush Iraq US Foreign Policy War on Terrorism World Affairs on October 27, 2003 by Steve

w asked, in a speach to the Australian parliament:

Who can possibly think that the world would be better off with Saddam Hussein still in power?

Charles Kuffner has the best answer to this that I have seen so far:

That’s not the point
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The problem here is that this is the wrong question to be asked. It’s a meaningless question meant to distract us from looking at the implications of how we went about removing Saddam from power and what it has cost us in money, lives, missed opportunities, and international reputation.

Read it all. There is some good stuff in the comments as well.
Via Not Geniuses.

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Action Hero?

This entry was posted in Republicans on October 26, 2003 by Steve

The National Review is getting an early start on xmas presents. The scary thing is…they might actually sell some of these.
Via Diotima.

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Cleaning Time

This entry was posted in Humor on October 26, 2003 by Steve

Jen has a dust bunny.

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Blogrolling Down?

This entry was posted in Modulator Blog on October 26, 2003 by Steve

Blogrolling’s service seems to be down at the moment (11:16 AM PT).
This appears to be causing Modulator’s sidebars to not load properly. But then you came here for the content not the sidebars, right?
Click your browsers stop button to stop the attempt to load the sidebars…

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The Long Campaign

This entry was posted in Culture on October 25, 2003 by Steve

Apparently there are a few folks who are happy (NYT requires free reg) with the demise of the Concorde:

Many of those sufferers, from neighborhoods surrounding Kennedy International Airport, showed up to toast a jet that had provided them not with trans-Atlantic luxury and speed, but with a first-class earache that throbbed for a quarter-century.

A few of them even think that their efforts ended the Concorde’s career which brings this response from Perry at Samizdata:

It is widespread delusional mindsets like, these with an inability to grasp anything beyond the most rudimentary causal links that sometimes get me muttering things like “the more people I meet, the more I like my cat”.

Perry’s right about the delusional part. I suppose, though, that these folks feel better and will now look to fight something else that will disappear on its own in 20-30 years. Tilting at windmills can be addicting.

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