Sunday, August 13, 2006
Meanwhile...
Irqaq continues to burn. The New York Times reports
They've done little of real value to protect us and done little to make al-Qaida's message less appealing to college educated, middle class, family folks across the globe. Al-Qaida's message and earlier iterations of it have been around for several decades, yet it is only now that large numbers of people find it appealing enough to act on and we have yet to even begin to address why. Sending Karen Hughes to the "region" with cue cards isn't an answer. Using the language of the Crusades isn't an answer. Continuing to support repressive and unrepresentative regimes isn't the answer. Using "terror alerts" to win elections isn't the answer. Using Homeland Security funds to win elections isn't the answer. I'm not 100% sure what the answer is, but the above ain't it.
Irqaq continues to burn. The New York Times reports
12 bodies were found in Suwayrah, 25 miles south of Baghdad, at one of a series of metal grates fixed in the river to block debris, Mamoun al-Rubaie of the Kut city morgue said.That anyone listens to anything Bush, Cheney, Rice, and Rumsfeld say about anything is utterly amazing. Look for more "terror" alerts as the November elections approach in order to distract the media and voters from the fact that Bush and the Republican Rubber Stamp Congress have botched the "war on terror" to an immense degree.
All were men between 35 and 45 years old and had been bound, blindfolded and shot in the head or chest, al-Rubaie said. They appeared to have been the victims of sectarian death squads that operate in the religiously mixed communities in the Baghdad area.
Police also found 15 other bullet-riddled bodies of men who had been handcuffed and blindfolded in six neighborhoods throughout the Baghdad area, police Lt. Mohammed Khayoun said.
They've done little of real value to protect us and done little to make al-Qaida's message less appealing to college educated, middle class, family folks across the globe. Al-Qaida's message and earlier iterations of it have been around for several decades, yet it is only now that large numbers of people find it appealing enough to act on and we have yet to even begin to address why. Sending Karen Hughes to the "region" with cue cards isn't an answer. Using the language of the Crusades isn't an answer. Continuing to support repressive and unrepresentative regimes isn't the answer. Using "terror alerts" to win elections isn't the answer. Using Homeland Security funds to win elections isn't the answer. I'm not 100% sure what the answer is, but the above ain't it.