Monday, May 03, 2004

I still prefer my coinage...

...of 'monolition,' but I'm rather taken with Billmon's reference to "...the Coalition of the Willing now down to the Coaliti, and still dropping letters..."

But what's in a name? The 'monolition' or the 'Coaliti' (or perhaps the 'Coalit' by now), is becoming more real day by day. As Naomi Klein notes in The Nation,

"The last month of inflammatory US aggression in Iraq has inspired what can only be described as a mutiny: Waves of soldiers, workers and politicians under the command of the US occupation authority are suddenly refusing to follow orders and abandoning their posts. First Spain announced it would withdraw its troops, then Honduras, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Kazakhstan. South Korean and Bulgarian troops were pulled back to their bases, while New Zealand is withdrawing its engineers. El Salvador, Norway, the Netherlands and Thailand will likely be next."

I'll stick with monolition for now. I'm afraid Billmon's usage is going to run out of letters before we run out of war...


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