Things

[rfmcdonald]

Well. Test in my Historiography course (comparing the ethnographic and gender approaches to history) in an hour's time; an English students' get-together at the Wave at 4 o'clock; two projects (one a one-page report on how to become a lawyer, one a comparative report for historiography). Nothing much.

I went to the gym today, after a break of a week; naturally, the TVs were turned on to news of the war in Iraq, which--it seems--hasn't been immediately greeted as a liberation by Iraqis. The Globe and Mail has stories about different problems facing the United States:

• the failure of the United States' alliances with Latin America, the sole country to be claimed as an ally being El Salvador which depends on remittances from the million-odd Salvadoran immigrants in the United States


• the potential for chaos if anything happens to/in the Shi'ite holy cities of Karbala and Najaf (just remember what happened to the Israelis in Lebanon in 1983)


• a bitter denunciation by Paul William Roberts of the war that includes the hope that it won't end too catastrophically for all concerned


• a reminder that Britain has its own long and bloody imperial history in Iraq

I know that I said there wouldn't be any war postings, but it's only going to get worse, isn't it?