Thursday, June 08, 2006
V-Z day
Torn between an intellectual desire to treat Zarqawi's death as "lonely, useless, ignored, unextraordinary, unromantic, trivial", versus the plain bloodthirsty human exultation at an enemy's death, Polistra finds a good symbolic answer.
Mainly, thank God we didn't capture Z and "try him as a war criminal". That would be the worst of all possible worlds, and it would be the normal Bush behavior. (Due Process and Rule Of Law count more than defending the country.) Perhaps hotter heads prevailed in this instance. ¶ 9:33 AM
Torn between an intellectual desire to treat Zarqawi's death as "lonely, useless, ignored, unextraordinary, unromantic, trivial", versus the plain bloodthirsty human exultation at an enemy's death, Polistra finds a good symbolic answer.
Mainly, thank God we didn't capture Z and "try him as a war criminal". That would be the worst of all possible worlds, and it would be the normal Bush behavior. (Due Process and Rule Of Law count more than defending the country.) Perhaps hotter heads prevailed in this instance. ¶ 9:33 AM
