Jerry Brito

Absolutely indispensable

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If you haven’t yet, check out The Agonist now. I don’t know how he does it, but the proprietor of that site, Sean-Paul Kelley, posts a (almost literally) minute-by-minute account of the war. He gets his information from sites across the Web, TV, readers and his own sources. He’s steadily been ahead of the curve relative to the networks.

As soon as you finish reading Kelley’s latest update, you can hit F5 to refresh your browser and he’ll have a new one. He has kept me up late at night, and behind on my readings for class. For candid dispatches from journalists at the front, check out the BBC’s War Diaries blog. The URL moves around, but you can always find them from BBC News’ front page.

I still have little to say on all this, except that things obviously aren’t looking good. By my count there have already been about 100 coalition soldiers dead in just five days of war. If that average keeps up, support for war will wane. Also, the Pentagon might have been too confident in counting on mass surrender. In a city like Basra that has a population of 1.5 million, all you need is one percent of the people to remain loyal to Saddam (or at least opposed to American occupation) to pose a major obstacle. And this obstacle is there to stay going forward.

Mar 24, 2003 | Comments