4 U.N. Workers Killed in Initial Strike on Afghanistan. What does it say about our targeting strategy if the Afghan Technical Consultancy, which oversees humanitarian mine clearing operations in Afghanistan, is on the site list? What does it say about our ability to avoid civilian casualties if it isn’t? Is it unpatriotic to ask? See Wartime Lies: A Consumer’s Guide to the Bombing:

Here come “surgical strikes”! Check out that “laser-guided” “pinpoint precision.”

“Collateral damage”? Hardly any.

It’s a glorious war, a noble cause, the only solution to a world crisis….

So we heard in the Gulf War.

So we hear at the onset of the Afghan war. Many of the same characters who ran and propagandized the last war — Colin Powell and Dan Rather, for instance — have returned to our living rooms. AlterNet [via BookNotes]

[Some people have begun to call this one “Desert W. Storm“…]