Macarthur S Two Words
Last week Americans were on the receiving end of a kind of shock and awe. The shock of recognition was delivered not by columns of tanks, flights of bombers or salvos of cruise missiles, but by a cell phone. The hanging of Saddam Hussein–not the fact of it, but the manner of it, communicated to the world by video from someone’s phone camera–may have been a tipping point. The video, which The Economist said resembled “the sordid snuff videos circulated on the internet by al-Qaeda,” may have been, in the scheme of things, just a straw....