This story has been around for several weeks, but since Zarqawi is in the news again maybe more people will finally notice. Fred Kaplan raises some key points in this, but one basic question is so unsettling that it's almost as unpleasant as "Sophie's Choice". Which is worse: That President Bush has the ability to kill a vicious international terrorist who is intent on making WMD, but refuses to do so because it would end the most compelling evidence he has that Iraq is a threat to American interests (even though said terrorist was operating in a Kurdish area in which it could certainly be argued that the U.S. military had more power than the Iraqi military). Or that the president is so disconnected, inept and uncurious that he leaves matters of war and peace to unelected aides who in their ideological zeal have made a host of obvious and costly mistakes.
I also wonder if Nick Berg's friends and family are aware of this, and how long it will be before Katie Couric or Brian Williams asks them to express their opinion on it.
Posted by armand at May 15, 2004 01:29 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics