Prometheus 6   

This is why I don't warblog

It's because other people do it so damn well.

I go past Daily Kos and see Operation Desert Snipe. Impressive…and condensed. Read it if you're in a rush. Otherwise, hit up Cogent Provocateur and read the full version. Quite worth your time, I assure you:

The Snipe Hunt is an American folk tradition, a rite of passage for the novice outdoorsman ... an elaborate practical joke which ends with the initiate crouching alone in the woods, in the dark, literally "holding the bag", waiting for the nonexistent Snipe.

What if we sift through all the sand in Iraq without finding WMDs? (That means hundreds of tons, as advertised ... not lab samples, training rounds or inventory strays.) We're alone in the woods, in the dark, holding the bag. Paraphrasing NYT's Tom Friedman, we will have gone to war on the wings of a snipe.

Too early to call it a night. It's a big desert, our last candle hasn't flickered out, and the mocking call of the snipe still echoes hauntingly in the distance, but ... the original standard WMD thesis is strictly defunct.

posted by Prometheus 6 at 4/24/2003 11:27:21 PM |