POLICE AND THIEVES: Remember that old '60s-era cliche that when you steal something, you're actually "liberating" it? Right now the newly freed multitudes are doing just that in Baghdad and other cities in Iraq, as they loot everything from village storefronts (bad) to Saddam Hussein's palaces (good!).
Now, when we said this was a war for "Iraqi liberation," this is NOT what we had in mind. But now that I think about it perhaps, now that the anti-war movement has sunken into self-parody (I'll see you at Sunday's post-war anti-war rally!), the liberation=stealing thing will prove the counterculture's greatest contribution of all to this war.