July 08, 2005
7/7
Usually I just wait around until Wolcott gets disgusted enough with Podhoretz to write about him (which is every few days lately), but since neither Wolcott nor anyone else has caught this just yet, I'll point out that in today's NY Post, The Pod wastes no time in commodifying the London disaster as "7/7". You won't see it by clicking that link however, as it only appears as a subtitle in the hard copy: "What 7/7 Means for NYC". Chris Bowers rounds up the Fox coverage and finds about what you'd expect - gleeful yammering boobs, quoted as saying that the attacks were "a good thing," "work[] to our advantage," a "treat," and a "good time to buy."
It's nostolgia all over again for the Neo-cons, as they'll argue numerous variations of "I told you so," but at the end of the day, our soldiers are in Iraq baptizing more terrorists, while this attack was domestic. Nothing in Iraq connects to London but we'll surely see enough rhetorical gymnastics over the next few weeks to make it so. The bottom line is that if someone wants to build and explode a bomb in a major city, not much is going to stop them. Pretending that the entire problem can be met at its physical source is bullshit.
posted by scott pilutik at July 8, 2005 12:12 PM