[ via Aaronland ] Robert Wright, in Slate, begs to differ with the “kill them all, G_D will know his own” line coming from the dogs on the Right.
I found it amusing, in a sad way, that at the same time William Safire denounced Clinton’s post-African embassy cruise missile strike, he supports the same policy.
Safire today derided President Clinton’s response to the African embassy bombings–lobbing cruise missiles into a terrorist camp in Afghanistan–as an ineffectual and “demeaning pretense.” But it was worse than ineffectual. Does anyone doubt that the incident gave Osama Bin Laden five eager recruits for every one of his soldiers who died? Now Safire and many others want to do the same thing on a larger scale.
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