Tuesday, November 21, 2006

"Wolf"

Go read this and then return. I'll occupy myself in the meanwhile by contemplating this picture...


... So, what was your take on that,... the article, that is? Did you have this reaction: hmm, Iran might have germ weapons, that would be bad in the sense that germ weapons are bad when possessed by anyone - perhaps Iran in particular, and this all sounds eerily familiar - typical floater-reason to invade or bomb.

And then did this recall a little story we learned in childhood, the one of the title of this post?

There is your legitimacy problem in a nutshell, and one of the reasons I've been harping about as to why the Iraq War has been so damaging in the longer term.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well said, helmut. Exactly.

helmut said...

Thanks, AP.