It’s A Complex, Complex, Complex World
Waterboarding, bad. Disrupting terrorist plots that could kill thousands of innocents, good.
What to do?
The Washington Post popped out, on the Saturday when everyone was distracted by Ted K’s funeral, the news that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, after initially resisting, became highly cooperative after his dunking and coughed up information that led to the arrest of dozens of AQ operatives, many previously unknown. He also began writing essays and conducting classroom sessions on AQ’s methods.
It’s all academic at this point, because the next high-value Al Qaeda target that gets picked up gets the gentlemanly, kid-glove treatment, no matter what he might know about who dies next. Smack that guy around and you’ll find yourself staring down the barrel of a multi-million-dollar taxpayer-subsidized special prosecution.
Good thing the GWOT’s over, even if the threat of man-caused disasters isn’t entirely gone. Good thing for Obama that George Bush hamstrung al Qaeda when he did. Along with the Predator strikes on compounds full of women and children, it should be good for a while. Knock on wood.
Maguire, snarking cruelly, suggests Obama “will have to try harder to make the case that his current approach will keep America safe.” I dunno, he seems to have been handed a free throw. At least for now, absent, you know …
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:42 am Comments (3) on Sunday, August 30, 2009
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August 30th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Disrupting terrorist plots that could fill thousands of innocents, good.
Disrupting terrorist plots that could kill thousands of innocents, bad.
August 30th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Yeah yeah yeah, typo. Fixed.
August 31st, 2009 at 10:35 am
Only trying to help, J.
:)