TERRORISM JUSTIFIES EVERYTHING

Loony lefty Australian academic Alison Broinowski has a piece – ostensibly about the UN but really about the evils of Bush and Howard – at Web Diary. It's long and choppy but good for a few laughs. If you can't be bothered reading the whole thing, here's the Broinowski penned executive summary:

Bush and his advisers - and Howard - are deliberately out of step with most of the Western world. They claim exceptional rights, promote missile defence, and rely on the threat of terrorism to justify everything they do.

We're out of step with Europe? Thank God.

Update: Web Diary minion Marilyn Shepherd has a stomach turning we-are-the-world moment:

Thank heavens for this diary where wonderful pieces like this can be found, what would we do without it. The thing everyone forgets about the UN is that we are the UN, every man, woman and child on earth is the United Nations of the world.

We say the UN as if it is a body disengaged from us, as if it is something different to a committee of human beings.