There is so much bad news coming out of Iraq these days, so much confusion and chaos, and no idea how anything good is going to be able to come out of that mess, that I just shut down and stop processing information. I don’t want to deal with it.
I suspect I’m not the only person who feels that way, and that might be part of why Iraq coverage is not in the press as much anymore. Also, of course, the so-called handover of power now means that news stations can, if they choose, slot Iraq back into their Middle East coverage, not treat it as US news (despite the fact that American troops are still dying and being wounded there daily).
All this is a very long preface to yet another reason why I LOVE Fafblog. The guy is a freaking genius. He somehow manages to report on a lot of news and still make me smile.
“You gotta use discipline on a young country,” says Giblets. “Otherwise it won’t grow up with the right values. Spare the gonad electrocution, spoil the child.”
“But won’t torture corrupt the government an make the people angrier and more hostile?” says me. “An won’t they hate us more for letting the new government torture them?”
“Oh-hoho,” says the Medium Lobster. “You poor, ignorant little Fafnir. You must understand: Iraq is going through a transitional period right now. It would be wrong for us to shock them with the presence of strange, new, unfamiliar cultural elements, such as ‘not-torture’ and ‘not-oppression.’ The key phrase here, Fafnir, is ‘transition’.”Meanwhile Iraq’s new Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has banned the TV network Al Jazeera for the next 30 days after accusin it of “inciting hatred” an actin “against the interests of security, the Iraqi government and the Iraqi people.”
“But how is this different from politically-motivated censorship?” says me.
“Well you can’t have a democracy without some politically-motivated censorship,” says Giblets.
Go read the rest. Then bookmark Fafblog if you haven’t already. And then bow! yes, bow before Giblets, bow before Giblets NOOOOOOOOW!