Posted 1:04 PM by Paul
This is the Boer War with Smart Bombs.

I feel that I am living in a fragment of the 19th century which has somehow got lost in the early 21st.

Blair gives us speeches about how "they died for their country" which are straight out of Kipling. Government spokemen rage with righteous indigation about the illegal tactics of an enemy that refuses to stand and fight in the open so that we can pick them off from 1,000 miles away with satelite guided mega-bombs. Hostilities were commenced under the quaint delusion that we would progress down the Euphrates in our gunboats , the banks crowded with cheering barefoot Abus grateful for a loaf of bread and release from their mad dictator. All we want to do is help them by installing a White Christian Viceroy. How could they possibly object to that?

They tell us that they did not expect suicide bombers. Why? Don' t they read newspapers?

It is an awful mess.