tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12004601.post112577138627581361..comments2023-03-25T08:22:13.556-04:00Comments on Now That It's Now: The Worst of the WorstUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12004601.post-1126562530315479432005-09-12T18:02:00.000-04:002005-09-12T18:02:00.000-04:00Did you actually read the articles? The Herald's ...Did you actually read the articles? The Herald's investigation was based on an internal Unicef report, from which it quotes at length. In addition, the investigation cites first-hand reports from German and Iraqi journalists, and quotes human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and the Red Cross as saying that they are aware of and extremely concerned about the problem of child detainees. This is what the report says about the Red Cross:<BR/><BR/>Between January and May this year the Red Cross registered a total of 107 juveniles in detention during 19 visits to six coalition prisons. The aid organisation’s Rana Sidani said they had no complete information about the ages of those detained, or how they had been treated. The deteriorating security situation has prevented the Red Cross visiting all detention centres. <BR/><BR/>By the way at least one fact in this story has been widely reported on in the blogosphere and the mainstream media: the rape of a sixteen year old boy. You can read about it at cbsnews <A HREF="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/22/iraq/main619076.shtml" REL="nofollow">here</A> and the washington post <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43783-2004May20.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>weazoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948156533505083810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12004601.post-1126550492098699932005-09-12T14:41:00.000-04:002005-09-12T14:41:00.000-04:00extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidenc...extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. <BR/><BR/>don't you think jacoby has a point about neutral organizations such as the red cross?Tysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03676262563581475175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12004601.post-1126216313906149162005-09-08T17:51:00.000-04:002005-09-08T17:51:00.000-04:00I agree with you that James Carroll is a wonderful...I agree with you that James Carroll is a wonderful writer. I didn't mean to impugn him in my post because out of the entire media he has probably been the most reliable, insightful, and sanest throughout the Bush years. When I spoke to him, it was after a talk he had given in Cambridge, and I told him about the Mackay article. I think that he didn't take me seriously because he thought I was some kind of conspiracy theorist, some crazy guy who had shown up at this talk, which is funny because that's what I felt like. What had happened to me was that in finally losing all faith in the media, I had turned myself into an outsider. I was by definition discredited by the circular logic so perfectly stated by Jacoby in his email to me: what I was saying must not be true because the media had not reported it, and the media would not listen to me because I was discredited. Being trapped by this argument made me feel more and more like a conspiracy theorist, but it was the feeling that society was going insane and not me. This must be what it feels like, I concluded, to try and retain one's bearings in a society which is lurching towards tyranny - almost impossible.weazoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948156533505083810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12004601.post-1126028496062811742005-09-06T13:41:00.000-04:002005-09-06T13:41:00.000-04:00James Carroll had a wonderful column in the Globe ...James Carroll had a wonderful column in the Globe the other day. He's my favorite writer there.<BR/><BR/>I used to write to Jacoby regularly to point out his inaccuracies and contradictions. I don't anymore.<BR/><BR/>I'm sending this post around in an email to everyone in my address book.<BR/><BR/>But I'm not sure Americans can cope with this disaster as well as the one in the Gulf Coast.<BR/><BR/>Words fail me.Isabella di Pestohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05465529528347735926noreply@blogger.com