A Mixed Bag
Welcome to the Spring Edition of The Razor. We have survived February without ousting Saddam, nuking Paris, or deporting Jeanine Garafolo for mediocre acting and limited knowledge of the Middle East. To help rectify the latter, we have introduced the Pop Quiz: Middle East. We have selected 24 questions that we believe one should know whenever opening one’s “pie-hole” about the politics of the region.
Well the weekend was a mixed bag. Turkey refused to host US troops – which is good news for the Kurds but bad news for Pentagon planners. This refusal probably means the beginning of an independent Kurdistan – something that this journal supports. The best news was the capture and handover of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed – the mastermind of the September 11 attacks. Kudos to our Pakistani allies for netting this fish and throwing him into our boat.
It seems our expectations of war being imminent were wrong for reasons explained here. However regimes and the press are focusing more on a post-Saddam Iraq, thereby making it harder for them to oppose military action to oust him. While various war scenarios have been floating around for several years, we at The Razor are wondering if the regime change envisioned will be more along the lines of the ousting of Noriega in Panama in 1989. If so, should Saddam take up residence in the Papal Nuncio or French embassy (for the actual playlist click here), here are some suggestions for songs to blast at him:
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Skinny Puppy |
VX Gas Attack |
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Skinny Puppy |
Assimilate |
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Ministry |
New World Order |
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The Cure |
Killing an Arab |
The first song was inspired by Saddam’s chemical attack on Halabjah in 1988. The rest are self explanatory.
Meanwhile, here’s a cartoon worth checking out:
