Passing Thoughts

Dark days getting lighter

So where is everyone going on a Monday morning? The last two Mondays it has taken me the best part of and hour and a half to get to work because of traffic queuing for 7 or 8 miles out of Glasgow. On all other days there has been little or no queuing and I have even made a sub 40 minute journey one morning. Very mysterious. Its not a good start to the week though.

A fairly pleasant weekend mostly doing bits and pieces of shopping. We went to Bar Soda. Great food and a nice treat. We also visited Livingstone shopping centre (which is awful) but we hired one of These for Milo which he absolutely loved. Other than that did very little at all except a bit of reading and playing with Milo.

With all this talk of war it seems to me that no one has really given a credible explanation of why it is needed – Good old Dubya saying that Saddam is a threat just doesn’t cut it. Iraq may or may not have weapons of mass destruction – so do lots of other people we don’t like. He seems to have little to do with Al’Queda (who clearly are a threat). Interestingly whilst we are claiming he is this great threat we seem to reckon that we can beat him easily in a war. Something doesn’t add up. It can’t be the oil thing – I have seen some pretty good arguments that it will harm the multinationals rather than helping them so what is it?

I was interested to find This which is a transcript of a George Bush speech where he says :

"You may hide for a brief period of time, but pretty soon we’re going to put the spotlight on you, and we’ll bring you to justice.

We’ve cut off millions of dollars that the enemy was using to fund operations. We’re working with friends and allies around the world. And we’re hauling them in, one by one. Some have met their fate by sudden justice; some are now answering questions at Guantanamo Bay. In either case, they’re no longer a problem to the United States of America and our friends. "

In what sense is the word justice used in this quote? Sudden justice=killing people perhaps? Guantanamo Bay where they hold people indefinately without trial...

Currently listening to a pre-release of the new King Crimson album – The Power To Believe. Powerful stuff. This band are one who have consistently kept moving – unlike a lot of bands that started in the 60’s.

Posted by Mark at January 13, 2003 02:41 PM