Not that you want to place much stock in Hans' hunches. After all, here's a man who told MTV he was "more worried about global warming" than war. Just this week, Blix declared that Saddam Hussein would never actually use weapons of mass destruction because that might damage the dictator's reputation. According to Mr. Blix's reasoning, Hussein would lose the public relations war if he threw chemical or biological weapons into battle against U.S.-led troops in Iraq. Even if facing certain death, he went on to say, Hussein would never resort to such weapons. "Some people," Mr. Blix said, "care about their reputations even after death."
I'm wondering about the reputations of the anti-war protesters. With the terror threat level back up to Code Orange, the government has beefed up security at federal buildings, military compounds, power plants, reservoirs, oil companies, stock exchanges -- all likely targets of terrorist sympathizers with Iraq, Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups.
Funny thing, or, maybe, not-so-funny thing: These are the same targets of the anti-war Left.
As the anti-war strategy shifts "from protest to resistance," as one protester put it, Fox News reported on a list of "70 economic and other targets in (San Francisco) alone, including power plants, water systems, the Federal Reserve, oil companies, the Pacific Exchange and the Transamerica Building." The plan, organizers said, is to "shut down the financial district of San Francisco."
This couldn't please America's enemies more. And why? Many anti-war groups are funded by foes of the U.S. government. Not in Our Name is financed by a group that not only supports Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, but, as Fox News also reported, once sponsored a group headed by Sami Al-Arian, the Florida professor recently charged with terrorist activities. A.N.S.W.E.R., another prominent coordinating anti-war organization, is a front group for the Workers World Party, a Marxist booster of North Korea's mad dictatorship. Suddenly, reports of protesters' plans to disrupt U.S. military installations, for example, fall into sinister, political place.
At Camp Vandenburg Air Force Base in California, authorities have already said they would use deadly force, if necessary, to protect the base. Deadly force, if necessary, in deadly times.