I’ve moved to one of the new Creative Commons v2.0 Licenses, and changed the licensing for this site to Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. That means if you use any of my material you can’t use it commercially (apart from with my permission) and must give me credit for it by a link if that’s possible in your media, and you have to distribute the resulting work under a license identical to this one.
Now, on to the blogging. I’ve been waiting for some time for the old “We’re all under attack” strategy leading up to the US election later this year, and hey presto, it’s arrived with Ashcroft’s sombre warning of some sort of attack, somewhere, at some time.
Quite an announcement for a country which has just been accused of countless human rights abuses:
The global security agenda promulgated by the US Administration is bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle. Sacrificing human rights in the name of security at home, turning a blind eye to abuses abroad, and using pre-emptive military force where and when it chooses have neither increased security nor ensured liberty.
…and has dismissed them out of hand. America was also, it’s suggested — although not by Amnesty — conveniently duped into war with Iraq by Chalabi. If that’s true, either Chalabi was really good at being a double agent of some kind, someone was really treasonous, or the administration was really stupid. Luckily, the New York Times’ disclosures of its mistakes in reporting Iraq are anything but stupid and an admirable contribution to proper responsibility.
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