PROFESSOR DEATH

Lefty Australian academic blogger, and one-time Harry of the dinner theatre production of Harry and the Hendersons, John "Quiggers" Quiggin, has reacted to my earlier post with this update at his blog:

JF Beck offers a defence of the Karimov dictatorship, ending rather lamely with the weasel words “Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not supporting the Karimov government or its actions. I’m simply pointing out that the “wanton murder” scenario being pitched by the left is open to question”. For Beck, and the rest of the RWDB crew, the important thing is to support Bush and attack the left on every possible occasion, even if it means giving someone like Karimov the benefit of the doubt.

Gee professor, I'm not even going to credit that as a nice try; you're reading things into my post that aren't there. The intent of my post – its title is afterall, NEW VERSION OF EVENTS IN UZBEKISTAN – was to point out that events in Uzbekistan, contrary to most of the MSM's coverage, were not at all clear. It might just be that the military was put into a position where it had to fight.

Okay, since the game seems to be to read between the lines, let's take another look at Quiggers' comment that originally drew my attention:

The NYT has survivors’ accounts of the massacre in Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, on last night’s ABC News, I saw the commander of the US base in Afghanistan interviewed. He said something like “The host country military are doing a wonderful job protecting the base and we have had no trouble from the disturbances”. That’s the same host country military that was murdering hundreds of its own people a few days earlier.

What the professor is really saying is that he dearly wishes Uzbek, or is it Afghan?, or both, and Amerikan forces had been wiped out by local "freedom fighters". Jeez, Quiggers is one blood-thirsty prick.