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...force of primal disorder; we are a society afflicted by the illusion of orderliness. We have been so buffered by the carefully demarcated rules of television that we lack the intellectual equipment to deal with chaos (even the events of 9/11 - talk about shock and awe! - were carefully groomed. The most shocking images, the bodies falling from the sky, were generally kept out of view...
...verdict: Orenthal James Simpson was not guilty of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. On the streets of African-American neighborhoods and the campuses of black colleges, we high-fived total strangers in jubilation. In white communities, we sat in quiet shock or vocal disgust. On radio shows, we hailed the acquittal of the black former football hero as payback for years of police racism, and we condemned the decision as a simple case of money buying freedom. At New York City's Rikers Island prison, we broke into applause, guards...
...first day of Gulf War II, shock and awe came to San Francisco. Antiwar protesters had long pledged that if bombs fell on Baghdad, they would unite to "stop business as usual" in America's major cities. Here's how they fared by the Bay: 40 intersections shut down by human blockades. Hay bales set on fire in the streets around the Transamerica Building. Police-car windows smashed all over town. A vomit-in by a small group at the base of the Federal Building to demonstrate that the war made them sick. 1,350 arrests--the highest...
...optimistic scenario for a quick and relatively painless victory over Saddam's forces appears to be receding, as the "shock-and-awe" concept gives way to a more conventional contest of division-strength armored formations. Despite Iraqi resistance, it's a showdown that can only have one outcome - but what may well be decided in the coming days is the time-frame and human cost of regime-change in Iraq...
...Having failed to shock the Iraqi forces into surrender, coalition forces are positioning themselves for a direct assault on Baghdad's defenses, well aware that the duration of the war will now be determined largely by the depth of Iraqi resistance. Even though that resistance has defied the more optimistic expectations that accompanied the start of the war, there's little doubt that the U.S. and its allies will ultimately prevail. But the intensity of that resistance, and its potential to create a drawn out and increasingly messy conflict could complicate the task of stabilizing a post-Saddam Iraq...