A lemming.

I am utterly unsurprised.


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Iraq and the race card

One of the interesting placards I saw during the protests accused George Bush of "racism." The assumption seems to be that if we go to war against Iraq, we'll be going to war against Arabs. In fact, during the haj this week the Muslim speakers made the same point: they claimed that the U.S. was preparing a war against all Muslims everywhere.

I was pleasantly surprised to see David Pryce-Jones turn that assumption on its head:

Behind the demonstrators' slogans lies the assumption that Arabs should be left alone: they don't mind being brutalised, tortured and murdered by a fascist thug like Saddam. Where they come from, it is the natural order of things.

Do I believe this is true of the protestors? No, not really-- at least not of most of the protestors. I am sure that there are those who hold this belief, but most would vehemently deny it.

But it does illustrate that the race card, when played, is a dangerous one. It can easily be turned against the person playing it.