Monday, February 05, 2007

War on symbolism

The pathetic and tragic state of the "War on Terror" is hinted at in this sentence in the routine account of death in Iraq --

A car bomb exploded near a children's hospital in Andalus Square in central Baghdad, killing six and wounding nine.

because there was a time when Arabs naming things after Andalusia was itself taken as part of their supposed irrendentism vis-a-vis "The West."

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