Tuesday, August 17, 2004

It can be valuable to seek out alternate perspectives on the news. Many right-wing bloggers cite the Belmont Club as a source for analysis of the situation in Iraq, and "Wretchard" who posts there certainly does have a perspective I would not expect to see elsewhere. Here, for example, he explains why the cadres of the Mahdi army are willing to defy what might seem to be long odds taking up arms against the U.S. Marines -- it seems they're getting news about the U.S. armed forces from Newsweek magazine, which has badly deceived them into believing that the Marines are pushovers.

I await with interest his analysis of the motives of the thousands of people who are flocking to the Shrine of Ali to oppose the U.S. Marines with no weapons at all, intending to act as human shields...

(Human shields news via Juan Cole).

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You might think that Bruce R from Flit is a mild-mannered Canadian. But you should check his archives to see some of his responses to Belmont Club's military analyses. "Spitting nails" doesn't even begin to describe it.

11:22 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You might think that Bruce R from Flit is a mild-mannered Canadian. But you should check his archives to see some of his responses to Belmont Club's military analyses. "Spitting nails" doesn't even begin to describe it.

2:03 PM  
Blogger charles said...

Indeed -- I've seen a couple of them. Great entertainment.

10:04 PM  

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