Assymetrical Warfare

[liadnan]

I've been arguing about the cretinous description of three Guantanamo detainees killing themselves as "assymetrical warfare" elsewhere rather than here: the Fafblog engages with the notion as only it can...

they only committed suicide as part of a diabolical ruse to trick the world into thinking our secret torture camp is the kind of secret torture camp that drives its prisoners to commit suicide! This fiendish attempt to slander the great American institution of the gulag is nothing less than an act of asymmetrical warfare against the United States - a noose is just a suicide bomb with a very small blast radius, people! - and when faced with a terrorist attack, America must respond. Giblets demands immediate retaliatory airstrikes on depressed Muslim torture victims throughout the mideast!

Quite.

Comments

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

My demand is simpler. I would like the Bush Cabinet and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to wage symmetric war to the nth degree against these devious suicides. I'll even supply the rope.

[coughingbear]

Yes, as Bitch Ph.D suggested the other day,
'Well, gosh, we can't let the terrorists win! Let's fight back.
You go first.'

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

In keeping with these opinions, there were a couple of excellent cartoons in the Independent this week.

Rather than put them in a comment box - and piss off everyone reading your comments - I stuck them in my LJ... see the cartoons here! (http://rhythmaning.livejournal.com/55270.html)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Just thought I'd let you know that I joined the Culture mailing list at 7 tonight and fled after two hours to prevent my mail box overflowing and the company security police nuking me from orbit.

But I will be back some day...