The appearance of activity would be a whole lot easier if I just wrote a script that monitored Juan Cole’s site, and — every time something appeared there — posted a link with a note saying “This demands deep thought. I am writing a paper about it”.<\/p>\n\n
However, I really, really can’t understand why this sort<\/a> of comparison does not figure anywhere in American public debate.<\/p>\n\n I know I bang on about the war to no avail, and saying nothing that we don’t already know. But these last couple of weeks have felt like a turning point: the suck-it-and-see conservative supporters have publicly abandoned it: Max Hastings, Robert Novak, Simon Jenkins. These are people who have no trouble with the idea that God ought to be on the side of the big battalions. They have noticed he’s not on our side in Iraq, and that the great problem now is to make an orderly and not too humiliating retreat.<\/p>\n\n Talking of God, here<\/a> is a really harrowing account (via mefi) of five days as a hostage of one of the guerrilla groups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The appearance of activity would be a whole lot easier if I just wrote a script that monitored Juan Cole’s site, and — every time something appeared there — posted a link with a note saying “This demands deep thought. … Continue reading