2005 Archives You'll see in the archives section above that 2005 is missing. That's some glitch that will hopefully rectify itself eventually. But in the meantime if you want to find my posts from this period they are below:
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Up until now, fluffy wuffy anti-Americanism has only expressed itself as a prolonged whine about how the Yanks have spent too little (or acted too fast!) in their response to the Asian quake disaster. Mean and stupid, as expected. But not certifiably barking.
Well, not yet.
But give them time. I'm willing to bet it won't be long before some shrieking twit accuses Bush of literally engineering the catastrophe.
Colin Powell's recent assertion that the aid pledged is partly meant to combat terrorism is more than enough for the paranoid pinko mind to conjure with.
I can hear them muttering now:
"It all make perfect sense. Amerikkka had everything to gain from this 'catastrophe'. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation after all...
"What better way to completely wipe out Islam, and replace it with 'democracy' in that region than by engineering a 'natural' disaster, then riding in and saving the day with aid?
"Remember what Powell said about preventing terrorism. Perhaps a bit too much information, don't you think?
"And why was no warning issued, even though the seismic activity was recorded in the Pacific?
"It all makes perfect sense. This is a conspiracy that makes Bush's engineering of the 9/11 'hijacking' seem tiny in comparison!"
Citizens of the more fluff-rich areas of the West - like inner-city Sydney, for instance - will start to hear this theory expressed occasionally at dinner parties, etc. Eventually it will appear in print. (It's probably on quite a few websites and blogs already.) There'll even be a book along these lines, I reckon.