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Dec. 7th, 2003 09:07 amThere have been some intriguing follow-up posts on my earlier entry regarding those aliens, here, and here. This would be one of the reasons why I love the lj world; we don't just make each other squee and/or flame but debate and write essays.
Not that enthusiasm or ire can't result in lengthy readable prose as well. A couple of days ago,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
melymbrosia discussed John Le Carré, the currently very angry Grand Old Man of spy fiction. Judging by the excerpt the Guardian printed in its review of his newest novel, he's aching for a fight. Quoth he:
'That war on Iraq was illegitimate... it was a criminal and immoral conspiracy. No provocation, no link with al-Qaeda, no weapons of Armageddon. Tales of complicity and Osama were self-serving bullshit. It was an old colonial war dressed up as a crusade for Western life and liberty, and it was launched by a clique of war-hungry Judaeo-Christian geopolitical fantasists who hijacked the media and exploited America's post-Nine Eleven psychopathy.'
(The review for the novel is here, and the Guardian also gives a useful brief summary of Le Carré's life and works if you're unfamiliar with him here.)
Incidentally, the same newspaper reports without Le Carré's ire but rather chillingly about the profitable side of the Iraq war. Seems Dick Cheney's company, Halliburton, has already made more than $ 1bn out of it.
It's enough to make oneself turn to a less than idyllic version of the future (though I always thought Section 31 is definitely Le Carré-inspired).
( Meanwhile, on DS9... )
Not that enthusiasm or ire can't result in lengthy readable prose as well. A couple of days ago,
melymbrosia discussed John Le Carré, the currently very angry Grand Old Man of spy fiction. Judging by the excerpt the Guardian printed in its review of his newest novel, he's aching for a fight. Quoth he: 'That war on Iraq was illegitimate... it was a criminal and immoral conspiracy. No provocation, no link with al-Qaeda, no weapons of Armageddon. Tales of complicity and Osama were self-serving bullshit. It was an old colonial war dressed up as a crusade for Western life and liberty, and it was launched by a clique of war-hungry Judaeo-Christian geopolitical fantasists who hijacked the media and exploited America's post-Nine Eleven psychopathy.'
(The review for the novel is here, and the Guardian also gives a useful brief summary of Le Carré's life and works if you're unfamiliar with him here.)
Incidentally, the same newspaper reports without Le Carré's ire but rather chillingly about the profitable side of the Iraq war. Seems Dick Cheney's company, Halliburton, has already made more than $ 1bn out of it.
It's enough to make oneself turn to a less than idyllic version of the future (though I always thought Section 31 is definitely Le Carré-inspired).
( Meanwhile, on DS9... )
