One thing that I find really annoying, watching the war news, is the tone of amazement that some of the newsreaders have that the Iraqis are actually fighting back. One would hope (in vain, I guess) that journalists would have been a bit more skeptical of the government’s propaganda about how easy it would be to invade and take over Iraq. It’s as if people from the press and the US government are indignant that Iraqis would fight to defend their country. The nerve! Didn’t Saddam’s people get the memo explaining that they had to roll over in the face of the mightiest military machine the world has ever seen?
-Dori Smith

In a similar vein, John Perry Barlow has some thoughts. An exerpt:

I know that the only truly powerful country on the planet is continuing to manufacture the perilous, conscience-stunting myth that technology can make war relatively safe. Indeed, we are so delusional on this subject that we believe that bombing the shit out of the
Iraqis is a humanitarian act.