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WarLog: World War III
War, Media, the Web & = Whatever=20 ... by Jeff Jarvis

Sunday, September 30, 2001 - Link=20
Middle-East sites of note: Al-Ahram, = published in=20 Cairo (with analysis of the American military, perspective = on=20 Afhanistan, and commentary by Edward Said); Gulf News from the = UAE; Turkish=20 Daily News; ArabicNews.com; all in=20 English, of varying quality. On the other hand, there are = some=20 frightening sites, such as Net = Iran and the=20 Syria=20 Times,
with a story arguing that the Israeli Mossad= =20 had a hand in the WTC attack. Click carefully.

A = Time=20 survey says 60 percent of Americans say life in their = communities=20 has returned to no= rmal=20 (the other 40 percent live around New York and = Washington).=20 Newsweek says that 85 percent believe there's a likelihood = of an=20 attack with biochemical=20 weapons. Some normalcy.
. .=20 .

Saturday, September 29, 2001 - Link=20
Bob Dole and Bill Clinton are = chairing=20 the charity I've been waiting for: a scholarship fund for = the=20 children and spouses of all the victims of Sept. 11. Read = the news=20 story her= e=20 (or permalink).=20 The Familes of Freedom Scholarship Fund's home page is here. Just = click and=20 donate!

From = the Jerusalem Post,=20 experienced Israeli advice on how we should fi= ght=20 this war; and a report that Ne= w=20 Yorkers are starting a counterterrorism = group.
Meanwhile,=20 the Washington Post reports on what's happening to reshape = the=20 armed forces to defend=20 the homeland.
The Jerusalem Post's Top 10 List for = us:
1.=20 Avoid panic. While some emotions are properly strong in = the=20 aftermath of the attack, others are less appropriate. The=20 terrorists are being handed an additional, if perhaps = temporary,=20 victory by the irrational fear of immediate repetitions. = The=20 economy is suffering seriously while the airline and=20 travel-related industries are particularly hard-hit. =
Shouldn't=20 someone tell the American people every few hours that if = the=20 terrorists needed three to four years to plan this last = attack,=20 another one is unlikely to occur soon? A terrible thing = has=20 happened, but this doesn't mean that it is going to take = place=20 every week. Osama bin Laden's forces last struck = effectively=20 against US embassies in Africa more than three years ago. = His=20 operatives are now heading for cover and it will take them = some=20 time to regroup.
2. Focus resources. America is a big, = powerful country used to having all the resources needed = to meet=20 any goal. But security resources are inevitably limited. = Don't=20 waste assets trying to protect everything or spreading = your forces=20 to thin. To cross the ocean and hit America, terrorists = are not=20 going to focus on a shopping mall in Muncie, Indiana. =
Priority=20 must be put and kept on high-profile targets, especially = in New=20 York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles, along with specific=20 buildings in other key cities.
3. Don't fight the last = war.=20 America is now gearing up to protect itself from a group = of=20 terrorists who hijack aircraft using knives and fly them = into=20 buildings. Much of the American security strategy seems = keyed to=20 preventing precisely the same attacks as those occurring = on=20 September 11.
But terrorists, too, read newspapers and = know=20 this is happening. Moreover, the whole point of terrorism=20 tactically is an ability to change targets and methods. = The next=20 attack could involve anything ranging from renting private = planes=20 to chemical warfare, or an Oklahoma-type attack using a = car bomb,=20 to just shooting at people. Counterterrorist planners need = to have=20 some imagination - but not too much (see point 2, above) - = in=20 figuring out the more likely threat and not just a rote = repetition=20 of the previous assault.
4. Basic defenses are the = most=20 effective ones. With all the attention focused on security = failures, a simple but obvious point is being neglected. = If the=20 X-ray machines and metal detectors had been run properly, = the=20 terrorists probably would not have succeeded.
Rather = than=20 invent all sorts of new technology and defensive forces, = it would=20 make more sense to ensure that the existing ones perform = properly.=20 At a recent congressional hearing, a senator recounted how = he had=20 gone through an airport - after the September 11 attack - = and=20 those staffing the X-ray machines had been engaged in = horse-play=20 rather than paying attention. You don't need air marshals = or armed=20 pilots if you do proper inspections on the ground and keep = the=20 cockpit door locked. Most of Israel's airport security = systems=20 have been in use since the 1960s with relatively little = change.=20
5. High-quality people. There is no substitute. In = Israel, the=20 best people go into security and intelligence work. At = airports,=20 security relations with passengers are handled by bright = young=20 people who know the importance of what they're doing and = are=20 especially conscientious because this is their first job. = In=20 America, with exceptions of course, those doing this work = are=20 there simply because they cannot get other employment. =
There=20 was a warning about 15 years ago that the airport security = people=20 were paid less than those working at fast-food = restaurants. No=20 matter how much you spend on technology or what clever = plans you=20 develop, these are only as good as the people implementing = them.=20
Precisely because attacks are so rare, Americans have = a very=20 hard time taking security seriously. Given the high levels = of=20 crime, though, this is a luxury that cannot be afforded. I = visited=20 a famous journalist friend who lives in a community where=20 residents pay thousands of dollars a year for protection. = A few=20 days after the attack and practically within sight of the = World=20 Trade Center, the guard waved me through when I mentioned = my=20 host's name. It became quickly apparent that he thought I = lived=20 there without checking anything. In America, the job title = "security guard" is a joke, and it is not unknown that the = "guards" may have criminal records themselves.
6. The = security=20 issue that dare not speak its name. America is not under = attack by=20 tribes from the Amazon river, Eskimos, Polynesians, or = Zulus.=20
Everyone knows this fact, but even to mention it is to = invite=20 the most vicious personal attacks and name-calling. But = let's say=20 it for the record: the terrorist attacks on the United = States are=20 being planned and implemented by Muslims from the Middle = East,=20 primarily Arabs. Therefore, it may be politically correct = but it=20 is also politically insane to pretend otherwise.
The = great=20 majority of Muslims and Arabs in America (or in the Middle = East=20 for that matter) are not involved in such terrorism. The = civil=20 liberties of all Americans should be respected. = Nevertheless, if=20 intelligence and security resources aren't focused on this = area,=20 then how can anything be effective? Everyone is at great = pains to=20 stress that prejudice is wrong and innocent people should = not be=20 harassed.
Yet almost no one has pointed out - except = for=20 Daniel Pipes - the extremely important point that key = Muslim=20 groups, including those invited to meet with President = George W.=20 Bush, are controlled by radicals who support terrorism. If = the=20 lives of thousands of people are at risk, the importance = of being=20 politically correct or not hurting someone's feelings may = seem=20 less significant.
Ethnic profiling does make sense. = Anyone who=20 believes this has never stood on line behind a Colombian = citizen=20 at an American customs' station. Surveillance of Islamic = and Arab=20 groups in the United States does make sense. There is a = valid=20 reason for national and ethnic profiling.
Sorry, but = that's=20 the truth. Ignore it if you want to do so, but understand = that=20 this puts lives at risk.
7. Avoid questionable allies: = If=20 Iran, Syria, Yemen, and Lebanon are invited into an = anti-terrorist=20 coalition, can one expect success? Whatever grudge some of = these=20 leaders have against the Taliban or desire to get some = reward for=20 fooling the United States, are these regimes really going = to help=20 fight terrorism?
Let's face it: When and if the = current crisis=20 cools off, bin Laden may be a respected consulting = terrorist=20 living in Teheran, Damascus, or Baghdad. These countries = are going=20 to sabotage any US military strike or pressures, because = they know=20 that similar methods could be used against them some day. = They=20 don't want to turn in the names of terrorists, because = they might=20 be hiring them in a few months. Already the US government = has been=20 whitewashing such countries as Saudi Arabia and Yemen, = which it=20 was castigating only weeks ago for their refusal to = cooperate in=20 solving previous terrorist attacks against Americans in = their=20 countries.
8. Tell the American people the truth about = what's=20 being said in the Arab world and Iran: Most of the = statements=20 cited in the American media are formal expressions of = regret from=20 Middle Eastern leaders. Yet the support and sympathy for=20 anti-American terrorism is sharply understated.
Here = is one=20 example from MEMRI, one of the groups (Palestinian Media = Watch=20 should also be mentioned) doing a remarkable job of making = this=20 material available. The chairman of the state-sponsored = Syrian=20 Arab Writers Association, Ali Uqleh Ursan, wrote in the = group's=20 "intellectual" organ that, on hearing about the attacks, = "I felt=20 like someone delivered from the grave; my lungs filled = with air=20 and I breathed in relief, as I'd never breathed before." =
And=20 incidentally, he cited American attacks on Korea, Vietnam, = and=20 Libya (in addition to support for Israel) as reasons for = taking=20 revenge. I have compiled about 300 pages of this material = from a=20 wide range of sources since September 11, including many=20 expressions of joy on non-public Islamist chat groups. =
9. If=20 you don't deter today you will pay tomorrow. In 1998, = hundreds of=20 people were killed in attacks on US embassies in Kenya and = Tanzania.
Most of them were black Africans and a = number were=20 surely Muslims, though the terrorists didn't care about = that. The=20 American response was a joke: an hour-long bombing attack = on Sudan=20 and in Afghanistan. And even this was criticized as = excessive by=20 many observers, who questioned whether there was full = evidence for=20 hitting the site in Sudan.
If punishments are so = limited, why=20 shouldn't states sponsor terrorists, including bin Laden, = and=20 individuals become terrorists? Why aren't American leaders = and=20 opinion makers saying every day: The failure to hit back = hard=20 after previous terrorist attacks is one of the main reason = why=20 5,000 people are dead in New York? Such a conclusion = certainly=20 suggests the importance of tough - and violent - action = today.=20
10. Listen to those who have been right all along. = Instant=20 experts are proliferating everywhere: people who a month = ago=20 couldn't have told you the difference between a Sunni and = a Shia=20 Muslim are now expounding on the details of Islamic = doctrine and=20 radical Middle East politics.
. .=20 .

Friday, September 28, 2001 - Link=20
American and British troops = have=20 entered Afghanistan.

The=20 White House gets tes= ty=20 with the media.
From Salon:
On the same day last = week that=20 "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw sat down to interview = former=20 President Clinton, executives for the program received = unexpected=20 phone calls from senior communications staffers at the = White=20 House, expressing disappointment about the decision to = spotlight=20 Bush's predecessor.
While not asking the network to = refrain=20 from running the interview, they expressed the feeling = that the=20 Sept. 18 interview with Clinton would not be helpful to = the=20 current war on terrorism. Neither NBC nor the White House = would=20 comment on the phone calls, but sources familiar with the = calls=20 confirmed that they happened.
This news comes on the = heels of=20 revelations that President Bush and Air Force One were = not,=20 contrary to earlier White House claims, targets of the = terrorists=20 who attacked the Pentagon and the World Trade Center Sept. = 11. The=20 White House is now saying that those claims, which it used = to=20 explain why the president didn't return to Washington = immediately=20 that day, were a result of staffers "misunderstanding" = security=20 information.
On Wednesday, tensions between the White = House=20 and its media critics, real or imagined, threatened to = rise even=20 higher. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer took a slap at = "Politically Incorrect" host Bill Maher, who called U.S. = military=20 strikes on faraway targets "cowardly." Fleischer blasted = Maher,=20 claiming it was "a terrible thing to say," and didn't stop = there,=20 noting "There are reminders to all Americans that they = need to=20 watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a = time=20 for remarks like that; there never is."

Boonies = look=20 better: The NY Post reported yesterday that New Yorkers = are=20 heading to the = 'burbs=20 to look for houses. Today, the Washington Post reports = that richer=20 New Yorkers are just moving to their summer=20 homes; school attendance in the Hamptons is = up.
From the=20 Washington Post:
This is a diaspora of the rich and=20 upper-middle class, a well-funded flight from the city's = death and=20 destruction.
In the weeks since the World Trade Center = towers=20 disintegrated, a small but rising number of people who can = afford=20 to escape Manhattan are doing so. A quick count finds that = about=20 four dozen New York City families have suddenly enrolled = their=20 children in private and public schools in the Hamptons, = along the=20 gilded southern shore of Long Island.
A property = caretaker in=20 Montauk reports that 35 of his clients have moved back = into their=20 summer homes full time. Many other families -- the numbers = are=20 difficult to pin down and change from day to day -- have = retreated=20 to vacation homes in Upstate New York and the Jersey=20 shore.
These New Yorkers have handsomely appointed = second homes=20 and incomes large enough to ease the dislocation. They = talk of=20 their move as a chance to soothe their nerves and calm = their=20 children.
But some emigrants prefer not to look back. = They are=20 moving permanently to the wealthier suburbs, enclaves 10 = and 15=20 miles from New York. In Alpine, N.J., real estate agent = Dennis=20 McCormack said clients from New York City have signed $40 = million=20 worth of home contracts since the Sept. 11 = attacks.
"I've=20 experienced a crazy buying frenzy these past two weeks," = said=20 McCormack, president of Prominent Properties. "All are = from=20 Manhattan, most live on the Upper East Side and have=20 children.



. .=20 .

Thursday, September 27, 2001 - Link=20
Is it too soon for humor? Yes, = unless=20 it's at the expense of our enemies. So it was risky -- = perhaps=20 even incredibly stupid -- for humor site The Onion to take on = terror.=20 But, amazingly, they mange it. Among the headlines:
- = Rest Of=20 Country Temporarily Feels Deep Affection For New York
- = God=20 Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule
- President Urges = Calm,=20 Restraint Among Nation's Ballad Singers
- Even the TV = listings=20 are funny.
Thanks. we needed that.

Call Bill = Maher=20 incredibly stupid -- he deserves that and oh, so more = after saying=20 on Politically Incorrect that America is "cowardly" = for=20 lobbing missiles from 2,000 miles away while the = terrorists who=20 stayed in the jets were "not cowardly." Incredibly stupid, = insensitive, arrogant, idiotic, offensive... words fail in = the=20 face of such brainlessness. Network executives, sponsors, = an army=20 of columnists, and even the White House are attacking=20 him and he deserves every slap. But I stop short of = wanting to see=20 his show canceled just because he said something = offensive. We've=20 gotten carried away with the power of offense in recent = years:=20 Anytime anyone says anything offensive, it's the highest = sin=20 demanding the highest punishment. That's not what we're = really=20 about. We're all smart out here in the audience; we can = tell an=20 idiot when we see one and we all know Maher is an idiot. = We don't=20 need anyone to protect us from that; we can turn the = channel=20 ourselves. So maybe we won't watch. Maybe his show will = die of its=20 own weight. Fine. But let's not do anything to damage our = right to=20 free speech. That's what we're fighting for.
. .=20 .

Wednesday, September 26, 2001 - Link=20
It wasn't just Muslims who = were=20 offended by the choice of Operation Infinite Justice as = our=20 military moniker for this war; my sister the Christian = theologian=20 found it offensive as well; many say it's God who has the = final,=20 infinite justice. Even Pravda=20 complained (mocking it as Operation Infinite = Arrogance,=20 Operation Infinite Hubris, Operation Unlimited Chutzpah). = So now=20 we have a new name: Enduring=20 Freedom. Or you can pick=20 your own.

Thanks to Jim = Romenesko for the=20 link to The = NY=20 Observer and the link (isn't the Web grand) to an = incredible=20 Israeli site on terrorism and intelligence: Debka.

Never = did like Starbucks=20 anyway. The bozos charged rescue workers for frigging = bottled=20 water to treat shock victims.
From The Guardian: "A = branch of=20 the coffee chain Starbucks charged New York rescue workers = for=20 water to treat victims of the suicide attack on the World = Trade=20 Centre, it emerged today.Ambulance workers were forced to = scramble=20 in their pockets for money to pay a $130 (=A388) bill for = three=20 cases of water used to treat victims for shock after the = twin=20 towers collapsed."
I'm hoping this is the end not only = of the=20 age of irony but also of the age of coffee.
. .=20 .

Tuesday, September 25, 2001 - Link=20
Rudy Guliani on Letterman=20 (thanks to Ken = Layne for=20 the link to the video): "These cowardly terrorists tried = to=20 separate us, tried to frighten us and what they achieved = in doing=20 is unifying America more than it has ever been unified = before."=20 Rudy knows. A few of my colleagues noticed yesterday that = the=20 fever to fly the American flag is universal: Ethnic and = immigrant=20 groups that didn't do so before or that flew their native = flags=20 higher are now embracing Old Glory as their own. We are=20 one.

Hollywood is suddenly rushing to protect=20 us from reality. That's the last thing we need. Instead of = delaying movies with megatonnage they should be showing = more of=20 them. That's the way it worked in WWII; that's the way it = will=20 work in WWIII. If I were a network programmer (an ongoing = fantasy)=20 I'd be scheduling Kick Ass Week: the best of = Schwarzenegger=20 and Willis. What America needs now is something to cheer = at.=20 America needs adrenalin. America needs victories. =

New=20 Jersey is freaky, too, these days: The NY Post dubbed = Jersey City=20 TERROR=20 TOWN on Sunday (that's where I work, a block from all = the=20 action). And today, The=20 Star-Ledger finds that the terror pilots rented planes = here=20 for practice runs at Manhattan. They were our=20 neighbors.
Meanwhile, racial profiling=20 returns to NJ with a different target. Is anybody going to = argue?
. .=20 .

Monday, September 24, 2001 - Link=20
Terror kitsch comes to = Manhattan:=20 Street vendors of every obscure nationality are selling = American=20 flags; flag pins; red, white, blue (and yellow) ribbons = and the=20 ugliest damned T-shirts you can imagine, covered with = artwork that=20 would look gaudy next to a velvet couch and inappropriate = messages=20 ("I can't believe I got out!"). It's kinda comforting to = see bad=20 taste returning.
More T-shirt= =20 kitsch from Bangkok.

And bitchiness returns: = Here are=20 two great lines from the NY Times today. On the = entertainment=20 industry trying to learn restraint -- "The new piety = strikes an=20 odd note: taste is not what some of these people do best." = And here's=20 Michael Kinsley snipping about Graydon Carter's = pronouncement that=20 irony is dead -- "In Vanity Fair, I found it sometimes = hard to=20 detect any irony in their respectful treatment of the=20 psychological traumas of movie stars.... If Graydon is = promising=20 never to be ironic again, that is a bluff that we may = enjoy=20 calling over the coming years." New York, New York. =
. .=20 .

Sunday, September 23, 2001 - Link=20
Distraction denied: I head to = the=20 Blockbuster but keep driving; can't bear stupid movies = (but I'm=20 the odd one -- video rentals are up.)=20 My copy of Jonathan Franzen's novel was filled with = pulverized=20 World Trade Center when I ran=20 away; I bought a new copy but can't bring myself to pick = it up. My=20 favorite distraction, Howard=20 Stern, has turned into a political show -- and a = damned good=20 one -- because he can't get distracted either. I go to a = sweet and=20 witty kiddie concert from Tom=20 Chapin but even a giggling 5-year-old can't distract = me. Am I=20 ready for the new TV season? Ha! Oh, how I wish I could be = distracted. But it's going to take time.

The Axis = alliance=20 of this war: Extreme fundamentalist Muslims who hate = America,=20 extreme fundamentalist Christians (read: Falwell)=20 who hate what America has become, and extreme = fundamentalist=20 liberals (read Matt = Welch and Christopher=20 Hitchens' attack on them) who want to blame America = for what=20 has befallen it. They're all dangerous lunatics. Shouldn't = we in=20 the media be exposing and and ridiculing these kooks and = cults?=20 Isn't that in our job description?
. .=20 .

Saturday, September 22, 2001 - Link=20
Bin Laden, in a smart piece on = him and=20 the Taliban in The Sunday=20 Times of London: "He hoped soon to die a martyr so = that he=20 would 'go to heaven and rest for ever.'" Except for that = heaven=20 part....

Now that we know what real heroes look = like, it's=20 real hard to take seriously all the heroes we in the media = and=20 America created before the terror: that is, celebrities. = This=20 struck me first yesterday when I looked at The=20 National Enquirer (hey, it's all media), where we are = asked to=20 give a damn that Daniel Day-Lewis walked to a New York = hospital=20 with donated ice (the gift that stops giving real fast) = and that=20 temporary lesbian Anne Heche was in the same airport as = terrorists=20 on the 11th. OK, that's the Enquirer. But I couldn't shake = this=20 feeling of misplaced fame and adoration during last = night's=20 all-star TV benefit for the attacks heroes and victims. = Yes, every=20 star there was there for a good cause and with a good = heart; it's=20 not their fault we put them on pedestals. But there's no = room on=20 those pedestals today. Rudy Guiliani is up there with = hundreds of=20 firemen and policeman and too many thousands of innocent = victims.=20
Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter just declared irony dead. = I beg=20 to disagree that that is the cultural pulse of the moment. = No, one=20 meaning of the terror to us in the media and entertainment = is that=20 celebrity is almost as devalued as the Dow. =

Already, we're=20 hearing TV anchors talking about how we are starting to = "return to=20 normal." Stop! This is not -- this better not be -- = normal. The=20 day when we know a new normal -- when we look up and = realize we're=20 not about to cry or be afraid -- is a long way off. Let's = all just=20 agree that America is in a period of mourning at least = through the=20 end of the year and what is bound to be a very sad = Christmas.=20

NJ.com and Staten Island = Live.com, our=20 local web sites, started a memorial forum for the = remembrances,=20 thoughts, and prayers of our communities and it is a = heartbreaking=20 but also inspiring read. You can see and post to the forum = here or = read a=20 compilation of some amazing moments here.

Wi= th=20 the networks deciding, prudently, to stop running the = grisly=20 moment-of-impact videos from Sept. 11, it's hard to find = them --=20 yet I find I still sometimes need to watch my own = memories. You=20 can find a large collection at wnbc.com.

Here'= s=20 an excellent compilation of well-worded weapons to use = when you're=20 telling your liberal fringe friends why it is abhorrent = and=20 downright stupid to argue that America bears one ounce of = blame=20 for the pain it is suffering -- from Matt Welch. = See the=20 post starting "Sensible Liberals Win, in a Rout." There, = Welch=20 says that "court Leftist Christopher Hitchens crowns a = remarkable=20 day of shouting down the Consequentialist, Pacifist = Chomskyite=20 Left." To quote Hitchins:=20 "The bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an = Islamic face,=20 and there's no point in any euphemism about it. What they=20 abominate about "the west", to put it in a phrase, is not = what=20 western liberals don't like and can't defend about their = own=20 system, but what they do like about it and must defend: = its=20 emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation = of=20 religion from the state. Loose talk about chickens coming = home to=20 roost is the moral equivalent of the hateful garbage = emitted by=20 Falwell and Robertson, and exhibits about the same = intellectual=20 content. Indiscriminate murder is not a judgment, even = obliquely,=20 on the victims or their way of life, or ours. Any = observant=20 follower of the prophet Mohammed could have been on one of = those=20 planes, or in one of those buildings - yes, even in the=20 Pentagon."
Next, Welch quotes the = Economist:=20 "Who is to blame? The simple answer =97 the suicide = attackers, and=20 those behind them =97 is hardly adequate, just as it would = hardly be=20 adequate simply to blame Hitler and his henchmen for the = second=20 world war, without mentioning the Treaty of Versailles or = Weimar=20 inflation. But that does not exculpate the perpetrators of = last=20 week's onslaught, just as the Versailles treaty does not = excuse=20 Auschwitz: whatever their grievances, nothing could excuse = an=20 attack of such ferocity and size."


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