Wanting to draw attention to the fact that it is now considered perfectly natural for a man of religion to be able to call upon the "services" of armed gangs whenever the fancy takes him, I tracked down on the web a phrase that had caught my attention in the print edition of Monday's International Herald Tribune. This is what I found:
Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Shiite militiamen off the streets Sunday but called on the government to stop its raids against his followers...
I was a little surprised when I read this as I had thought the irony of the situation was rather more apparent than that. As luck would have it, I managed to get my hands on the paper edition, and here's what I read:
The Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said Sunday that he was ready to pull his fighters off the streets ....
In other words Muqtada was now a cleric, his name was Muqtada and his militiamen had become fighters. I wonder if there's a lot of this sort of thing going on?
A Kiss Before Dying
If you have read Ira Levin's book or seen the film, you may recall that towards the end the net begins to close in on the psychopathic killer Jonathan Corliss. He realises that his wife and his father-in-law are "on to him". He tries to fight back the rising panic and screams at himself something like: "A plan! A plan! Even at this late stage, a plan!" Isn't that exactly what must be going through Hillary Clinton's mind at the moment?
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