March 29, 2003

Opiate of the rich and famous

Julie Burchill goes after the peacenuggets with great gusto. So many good quotes:

Surely this is the most self-obsessed anti-war protest ever. NOT IN MY NAME! That's the giveaway. Who gives a stuff about their wet, white, western names?

And:

On one hand the selflessness and internationalism of the soldiers; on the other the Whites-First isolationism of the protesters.

And:

NOT IN MY NAME! is western imperialism of the sneakiest sort, putting our clean hands before the freedom of an enslaved people.

What can I say? In MY name I say "Thank you, Ms. Burchill, for saying what I have been struggling for words to express." (Via Tim Blair.)

Posted by Andrea Harris at March 29, 2003 01:59 AM
Comments

another thing that has bothered me about many of the protests - their theme seems to be "Throw a Tantrum for Peace". I was reading on a weblog (not supposedly a political one, but the person couldn't resist airing their political views) that she was going to (loosely quoted here) "scream and kick and yell until the killing stops"

(of course, she doesn't consider all the killing that Hussein has done...)

is it just a symptom of our increasingly infantile culture? Can we expect to see war protesters saying "I'm gonna hold my breath until the president pulls the troops out of Iraq"?

Posted by: ricki at March 29, 2003 at 09:18 AM

Not a bad oped but you can tell its from the Guardian because of this little ditty:

Those who demonstrated against US aggression in Vietnam and Cuba did so because they believed that those people should have more freedom, not less.

They get it... but they don't get it.

Posted by: Sus at March 29, 2003 at 11:38 AM

How dare you Burchill. How dare you use common sense.

Posted by: d H at March 29, 2003 at 03:27 PM

Sus,
She hasn't realized that the people who demonstrated agwainst the US over Vietnam and Cuba were doing so for the same reasons as the present anti-war demonstrators. They assissted in depriving the people of SE Asia and Cuba of freedom. She has not yet actually reexamined her basic assumptions. It's just that Saddam cannot plausibly be presented as an apostle of left wing beliefs that the scales fell from her eyes. If she only realized it, Saddam is no different from Ho, le Duan, or Castro. He is no different in his murderousness and no different in his selfish greed for power.

Posted by: Michael Lonie at March 29, 2003 at 07:17 PM

Mike:

Duh, sweetie :0)

Posted by: Sus at March 30, 2003 at 11:17 AM