Thursday, December 25, 2003
Bush: the ineffectual killer
Honestly, I'm not making this up. Peter Bergen of WaPo writes:
Golly. Can you imagine FDR, Truman, Lincoln—any great wartime President—doing this?1 Combine this with Bush torturing small animals (I'm not making this up either) and you've got a portrait of a deeply disturbed individual.
Worse, Bush's tactics won't work.
1And why do I get the uneasy feeling that Bush's critics and political opponents are in the same book?
President Bush reportedly keeps photos of the 20 or so top terrorists in his desk, and when one of them is apprehended or killed writes an X through his picture.
Golly. Can you imagine FDR, Truman, Lincoln—any great wartime President—doing this?1 Combine this with Bush torturing small animals (I'm not making this up either) and you've got a portrait of a deeply disturbed individual.
Worse, Bush's tactics won't work.
That might work for a Mafia crime family: Arrest all the key members and the organization will disappear. But al Qaeda is now a movement based on an ideology. Arresting a movement is quite a different proposition from arresting people.
1And why do I get the uneasy feeling that Bush's critics and political opponents are in the same book?
