Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Faucet's dripping! Call the plumber!
What? Plumber refuses to come? What's wrong with him?
News item: Saddam's trial postponed because witnesses too frightened to testify.
This is, of course, the logical outcome of Bush's hopelessly naive desire to "catch terrorists and bring them to justice".
There is no point in applying the rule of law to fix Iraq while Saddam still has the power to destroy all the mechanisms of law.
We should have killed him in 1991. We should have killed him when we captured him. The price of those two failures is drearily predictable. He will be freed for "lack of evidence", and he will resume power. ¶ 7:38 AM
What? Plumber refuses to come? What's wrong with him?
News item: Saddam's trial postponed because witnesses too frightened to testify.
This is, of course, the logical outcome of Bush's hopelessly naive desire to "catch terrorists and bring them to justice".
There is no point in applying the rule of law to fix Iraq while Saddam still has the power to destroy all the mechanisms of law.
We should have killed him in 1991. We should have killed him when we captured him. The price of those two failures is drearily predictable. He will be freed for "lack of evidence", and he will resume power. ¶ 7:38 AM
