Baying at the moon: Although he also takes a weak swing at anti-war groups,
something about the 'self-righteous self-loathing' left's aversion to risk,
its 'economism', Mick Hume is generally on good form, blasting away at the Bush clique and the 'lamest' case for war ever heard.
He cites the US Defence Secretary's comments during an August 27 press conference, saying: 'Never in the field of human conflict have so many had to listen
to so much risible nonsense from so few.' [Spectator].
Nonsense is right. Rumsfeld hypothesised about a pre-emptive strike against,
yep, that longtime enemy of the free world, the Man in the Moon:
'And of course, the advantage of not acting against the moon would be that
no one could say that you acted. They would say, `Isn't that good? You didn't
do anything against the moon.' The other side of the coin of not acting
against the moon in the event that the moon posed a serious threat would be
that you then suffered a serious loss and you're sorry after that's over.' [NPR];
[NPR radio].
Good to know the Bush administration is thinking so deeply and seriously about
international law, the legality or otherwise of unilateral US strikes.
