An even more disgraceful way to achieve nothing.
Yesterday several bombs exploded in London, interrupting the public transport system, killing 50 humans and injuring 700.
That much shouldn't be news to anybody at this point, except to people who watch four hours of Big Brother a day and probably can't read in order to read this.
My previous post about the futility of Live 8 seems a little churlish today. That concert happened to at least generate some positive sentiment towards economic reforms that might give developing countries a fairer deal. The worst that could possibly be said about it was that it was naive and sanctimonious.
A post has been brewing for a few days about the behaviour of activists outside Gleneagles, where the G8 Summit is taking place. We saw images of people acting like pricks for the sake of acting like pricks. It was a reminder of scenes such as the late 90's "Battle for Seattle", where activists were trying to put on the agenda that which is on the agenda this week. I guess some people are never satisfied.
Today, that behaviour looks like the juvenile irresponsibility it is. It cannot possibly compete with the repugnance of yesterday's events.
The bombings are being widely attributed to Al-Qaeda, although this hasn't been confirmed at any official level. Without knowing who did it, it is hard to say what is meant to be achieved. It seems plausible that there is a connection with the Al-Qaeda network and they want the British to be scared out of Iraq, just like the Spanish were.
Blowing up a train in Madrid worked, and that's positive reinforcement.
The Spanish pulled out of Iraq because the Madrid bombing coincided with elections, and the frightened public voted for a candidate who would give in. Maybe the same could have worked for Britain if the London bombings had been better timed.
Blair has another four years before he faces the electorate again and he is not indicating any intention to allow thuggish intimidation to become a legitimate means of influencing British foreign policy.
My prediction is that this will affect the British in the same way as the attacks on the World Trade Centre affected Americans. The 2002 Cadillac Escalade was in the showrooms on time, Americans kept acting like Americans (Only more so), the US government became even more "Pro-active" with its foreign policy.
The best David could do on September 11th, 2001 was give Goliath a bloodied nose and a bad temper.
The Brits probably won't refer to this as "7-7", but they're hardly likely to pussy out either. The kind of "Resolve" Tony Blair is referring to will be the kind that tells the attackers and the people they represent to go fuck themselves.
A country with win/loss stats like Great Britain doesn't scare easy.
That much shouldn't be news to anybody at this point, except to people who watch four hours of Big Brother a day and probably can't read in order to read this.
My previous post about the futility of Live 8 seems a little churlish today. That concert happened to at least generate some positive sentiment towards economic reforms that might give developing countries a fairer deal. The worst that could possibly be said about it was that it was naive and sanctimonious.
A post has been brewing for a few days about the behaviour of activists outside Gleneagles, where the G8 Summit is taking place. We saw images of people acting like pricks for the sake of acting like pricks. It was a reminder of scenes such as the late 90's "Battle for Seattle", where activists were trying to put on the agenda that which is on the agenda this week. I guess some people are never satisfied.
Today, that behaviour looks like the juvenile irresponsibility it is. It cannot possibly compete with the repugnance of yesterday's events.
The bombings are being widely attributed to Al-Qaeda, although this hasn't been confirmed at any official level. Without knowing who did it, it is hard to say what is meant to be achieved. It seems plausible that there is a connection with the Al-Qaeda network and they want the British to be scared out of Iraq, just like the Spanish were.
Blowing up a train in Madrid worked, and that's positive reinforcement.
The Spanish pulled out of Iraq because the Madrid bombing coincided with elections, and the frightened public voted for a candidate who would give in. Maybe the same could have worked for Britain if the London bombings had been better timed.
Blair has another four years before he faces the electorate again and he is not indicating any intention to allow thuggish intimidation to become a legitimate means of influencing British foreign policy.
My prediction is that this will affect the British in the same way as the attacks on the World Trade Centre affected Americans. The 2002 Cadillac Escalade was in the showrooms on time, Americans kept acting like Americans (Only more so), the US government became even more "Pro-active" with its foreign policy.
The best David could do on September 11th, 2001 was give Goliath a bloodied nose and a bad temper.
The Brits probably won't refer to this as "7-7", but they're hardly likely to pussy out either. The kind of "Resolve" Tony Blair is referring to will be the kind that tells the attackers and the people they represent to go fuck themselves.
A country with win/loss stats like Great Britain doesn't scare easy.
posted by Mr Schrempp @ 5:41 pm
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