NP? Moby-Dick and the War on Al-Qaeda

[Doug Millison]

http://www.counterpunch.org/cooney1.html
Moby-Dick and the War on Al-Qaeda

Remember the Pequod!

By Brendan Cooney


"[...] The gauntlet Ahab throws down to his crew is precisely the one Bush
flung upon the world: you're either with us or against us. Adrenalin seizes
the crew. They take an oath to hunt the whale. The ship sinks. Everyone
dies except Ishmael, the narrator. The narratives bear other striking
similarities. [...] "