Saturday Blog Tour

How the Flypaper Theory is working. If you don't understand it you're just unenlightened, like Jim Henley. Via Micah Holmquist, Mickey Z. on Osama bin Laden vs. Pat Tillman zeynep zeroes in on the essential question for the US military, which tried to justify firing missiles into a crowd on Haifa Street in Baghdad last weekend:

Simply put, if you cannot tell "insurgents" and "civilians" apart then you're in the wrong country. Something is very wrong if the "civilians," "natives," or "non-combatants" --however you want to name the people on whose behalf you claim to be fighting-- are indistinguishable from your "enemies."

Laura Rosen says the neocons are creating an "enemies list." Tristero says:

Two thoughts: 1. Huh? They only got around to it now? More proof of their clueless incompetence. 2. If I'm not on that list, I'll like totally never live it down. Where do I apply?

The competition to be on the list will undoubtedly be fierce. Some "I was Wrong About the Iraq Invasion" posts, here and here. If anyone knows of more that should be gathered into a Hall of...well, let's be kind...Bad Judgement or something, let me know. And anyone who feels even the slightest bit of enthusiasm for any war should read this again, and maybe this, especially the ones who are saying they're surprised at how the Bushistas botched every thing possible, even botching things no one thought botchable. For example, who would have ever thought any bureaucrats could botch spending billions of dollars? That's got to be a first in the history of bureaucracy. Scandalette updates: Ken Layne on Rathergate, Rising Hegemon on FatherFReeper of the Year (see William Rivers Pitt on this one, too plus I still think the whole thing is funnier if you read some of this first) and I think we have everything on the Protest Warrior here. The Emperor is Naked. I've been looking for a good place to post this picture that I stole from Sadly, No! And don't miss Chris Deliso's interview with Scott Taylor, the Canadian journalist taken hostage by Ansar Al Islam just before the US attacked Tal Afar - it's an eye opener!