cut and run
17May2004
[myth]
[tweet this]
Didn’t think Mark Latham’s call to get out of Iraq was very sensible at first (after all, we - Australia, the US and Britain - made a mess of the place, the least we can do is help rebuild it). But now he’s suggesting the US-led coalition get out of there, “handing over security to a United Nations force made up largely of Arab nations”, while continuing to fund the reconstruction.
Which is political genius. Not because the US will consider it a viable option (cos they’d lose control of the oil) but because it calls John Howard’s bluff - it shows that Labor is willing to consider alternatives that are politically sound and culturally sensitive. And meanwhile, Latham’s call has forced the Libs into the unfortunate position of committing to stay there longer (when originally Howard had hoped for “home by Christmas” anyway - in time for a pre-election parade). Robert Hill, Minister for Defence has now said we may be there for three years! Given one of the war’s selling points was that it would be in-and-out in a matter of months, admitting this is rather dramatic (remembering that we knew this all along, but getting the Howard Government to admit to anything is near impossible).
Of course, this will all be forgotten now that the head of the Iraqi Governing Council, Izzadine Salim, has been blown up. George, Johnny and Co (and their friends in the media) know just how to twist such an event to their own warped il/logic. I just take hope from the fact that, every time they do distort the truth, they come out just slightly worse for wear…
« Domain.com.au Feedback :: The Altar Of Reason »
Related [myth]
- On the PlayBook (09May2011)
- On Chatter and What Matters (30March2011)
- On Anonymity as Trolling (01December2010)
- On Music (06October2010)
- Five Things (30August2010)
- On Work (22November2009)
- The Space Race (28May2009)
- On Chatter (20May2009)
- Not The Mobile Web, just A mobile web (13July2008)
- Melbourne, Je t'aime (13March2008)
- Slouching Towards Bedlam (02January2008)
- War & Politics (10October2007)
- Crises of faith (16August2007)
- Green is a Status Symbol (13July2007)
- The Author and The Logos (11June2006)
- Who Says Computers Aren't Intelligent? (26May2006)
- On Being Marketed Down To (11May2006)
- Venus and Mars and some other planet (14April2006)
- Team B Mark II (13April2006)
- Rehearsing for Fourty Thousand Years; On Cultural Curiosity (10April2006)
- When Myth-Making Backfires (22February2006)
- Vanishing From View (19February2006)
- Rethinking Judas (03February2006)
- Places of Departure (04January2006)
- Public Schooling, Religion, A Manifesto (17December2005)
- Australian Identity and Online Writing (11December2005)
- The Universal Library (02December2005)
- Turing's Cathedral (29October2005)
- I don't HATE Microsoft (28October2005)
- Reclaiming the label Amateur (27October2005)
- That's not a knife (22October2005)
- Some observations on 'Spam 2.0' (17October2005)
- Bird Flu (15October2005)
- Computing isn't meant to be Easy (15October2005)
- "How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong" (09October2005)
- Pollution != Global Warming (07October2005)
- Bible truth (06October2005)
- Starbucks (15September2005)
- JK Rowling Interview (06August2005)
- Woo! Drink Good (03August2005)
- 'the Jedi Order, the geekiest people in the universe' (20July2005)
- Did you sell any goods or services using the Internet? (19July2005)
- Connectivity (13July2005)
- bourgeois myth (25June2005)
- press-ganging alive and well (10June2005)
- With Us or Against Us (01June2005)
- It's Non (29May2005)
- lesser of two evils (06May2005)
- God's Rottweiler (26April2005)
- In the Public Interests of Whom? (11April2005)
- 'threats that no one country, however powerful, can fight alone' (22March2005)
- So what are your politics? (17March2005)
- Trade-Slave (20January2005)
- Elves Of Valinor Warn Of 'Critical Security Flaw' in Palantir Browsers (16January2005)
- four legs good, two legs ... (12January2005)
- Acts of God (04January2005)
- what terrorism may achieve (22December2004)
- My Favourite Book (06December2004)
- Terrorist Descent (06December2004)
- more Centrists (04December2004)
- kill everyone (10November2004)
- trendy lefties (09November2004)
- digital delivery (30September2004)
- appeasement is a dirty word (10September2004)
- pro-one-choice (07September2004)
- another little victory (10August2004)
- Artorius Rex-tended (23July2004)
- Crazy Irish-Catholic terrorists (23July2004)
- Five and a half pages (23July2004)
- I knew he was stupid, but really... (16July2004)
- Artorius Rex (16July2004)
- 'at no time did australian troops...' (27June2004)
- cut and run (17May2004)
- Abort (25April2004)
- The Passion Part I (22April2004)
- the light in the darkness (18April2004)
- woundedness (18April2004)
- Chromies (15April2004)
- Fortress Australia (12April2004)
- The Passion Pre-Viewing (04March2004)
- 'the desire to be a patriot and to change things' (18February2004)
- I want to be a Free Spirit (14February2004)
- Broken Hearts (14February2004)