8.14.2006

Wait a minute. Haven't we been here before?

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Pakistan says 'ringleader' admits link with al-Qaida:
Tasneem Aslam, the Pakistan foreign ministry spokeswoman, told the Guardian last night that information from Mr Rauf had led to last week's arrests in Britain, which included his brother Tayib, and confirmed that the plot was believed to have originated with “al-Qaida based in Afghanistan”.
Dude, if just one word of that is true it's the most incredibly depressing thing you'll hear all week. Or at least for the next hour or two. The word, of course, is “Afghanistan.”

Because if that word's true then all this sound and fury, death and destruction, has got us exactly nowhere, hasn't it? There are still al-Qaida in Afghanistan, plotting to blow up airplanes. Five years of almost indescribable carnage visited upon Afghanistan and the Middle East, five years of Neocon wet dreams, And here we are again. Fuck.

And by the way, Guardian, what's with the period outside the quotation mark? Is that some sort of weird Brit thing I've just noticed or is it Monday there too?

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1 comment:

...e... said...

yeah, it's brit. i had to unlearn it when i went to grad school. my dad was canadian and i seem to have picked everything up from him.