At The Guardian website, security editor Richard Norton-Taylor is flogging Stop The War: A Graphic History, featuring 200+ pages of Stopper-approved photos, illustrations and cartoons.
Whether the book features the glorious profusion of Hezbollah flags and pictures of the famous pacifist Hassan Nasrallah that appeared in Stop the War demonstrations during the 2006 Lebanon war, I can’t say.
Nor do I know if mention is made of George Galloway’s great antiwar speech to a Stopper demonstration in which he proclaimed, “I am here to glorify the resistance, Hezbollah. I am here to glorify the leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.”
But I did appreciate the presumably sardonic commenter to Norton-Taylor’s post, who wrote:
Did they make a difference? Influence government policy? Ultimately, no. But they make a nice coffee table book, just in time for Christmas.
I shudder to think of what kinds of people would keep a book like that on their coffee tables. Which raises the question: Which books do you keep on your coffee table? Or if you don’t have a coffee table, which books would you keep on it if you did have one?
Here are mine (click to enlarge):
