by Matt Barr

Watcher's Council results; carnivals

The Watcher's Council voting for the last couple weeks brought to the surfrace a number of excellent posts.

For September 1 (nominees, full results), Gates of Vienna, the Johan Santana of the Watcher's Council, fed up Empire and Apocalypse:

The first and most vulnerable targets will be those within our own borders who have jeered at this country, who have labeled us unjustly, who have looked down from the heights of Olympus and found America wanting in so many of the virtues it considers important: tolerance for the deviant and undeserving, and the assigning of victim status to anyone with a grievance and a thin skin. These are the people who will be most at risk in a global nuclear environment, an environment they helped to create.

Placing were Targeted Killings, Moral Consideration at Soccer Dad (the Jeremy Sowers of the Watcher's Council?) and the poignant Meanwhile, in Darfur... at Joshuapundit (the Chien-Ming Wang of the Watcher's Council? Ok, I'll stop).

In the Non-Council category, Kobayashi Maru won a tiebreaker with Check or Checkmate? Death by Cop on the Global Stage.

We (finally) won the Cold War by forcing an acceleration in the undeniability of the internal contradictions in the Soviet system. One of the advantages that Greater Islam has been able to exploit in the West is our internal contradiction of tolerance for intolerance.

Placing was the clever When Teaching School Is Like... A Divine Comedy at A Shrewdness of Apes.

For September 8 (nominees, full results), The Sundries Shack won a tiebreaker with It’s Not a War. It’s a Trendy Buzzword!

[CNN] believes, and reports as fact, that our President’s insistence that we are fighting a specific and dangerous form of fascism is just some technical term he whips out to dazzle the rubes. They tell us, as impartial reporters of news, that the the word “fascism”, as the administration uses it, has little meaning at all.

CNN is wrong, Jimmie blogs. Tying for second were It Is Time for Jews to Think About Leaving Western Europe at Joshuapundit and 9/11 Tin Foil Hats Are Melting at Right Wing Nut House.

Mere Rhetoric won the non-Council vote with Hezbollah Probably Lost the War, But They May Never Have Been In It To Win.

It's obvious that Hezbollah never intended this kidnapping to have military consequences and it's at least tenable that Nasrallah is more or less indifferent to rising levels of anti-Hezbollah Lebanese sentiment. His strategy was, if not more subtle, then at least more careful.

Read about it. Placing were Friday, September 01, 2006 at Gideon's Blog and Repeal McCainFeingold at Going to the Mat.

Global Security Law hosts Blawg Review #74 this week, and its theme is the law after September 11, 2001.

Rick Sincere hosts Carnival of Liberty 62 at his blog. While not completely September 11-themed, it notes the Wired News piece suggesting 9/11 was "the birth of the blog."

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