"What we need is a bloodbath..."
Peter Cuthbertson quotes a sampling of some of the uglier sentiments from this Guardian message board's discussion of whether Britons ought to "support the troops." I have to say, I've heard worse; and the ones which seem to express a genuine, despicable, eagerness for mass-scale casualties are, mercifully, in the minority. But they are out there.
(via Harry Steele, who mailed the pro-democracy Johann Hari article to the Trots and received the expected response. From a perceptive Harry's Place commenter: "I suspect that for the SWP, the failure of the Stop the War Coalition is a feature, not a bug." If you're a communist in 2003, failure is pretty much all you've got going for you.)
Posted by Dr. Frank at March 20, 2003 07:54 AM | TrackBack