Category: the battle of the bulge
color me stunned
cross-posted here
Glenn Greenwald – Salon quotes law professor Glenn Reynolds:
This has been obvious for a long time anyway, and I don’t understand why the Bush Administration has been so slow to respond. Nor do I think that high-profile diplomacy is an appropriate response. We should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and iranian atomic scientists, supporting the simmering insurgencies within Iran, putting the mullahs’ expat business interests out of business, etc.
Basically, stepping on the Iranians’ toes hard enough to make them reconsider their not-so-covert war against us in Iraq. And we should have been doing this since the summer 2003. But as far as I can tell, we’ve done nothing along these lines.
What can you add to that? A law professor at a state-funded university is advocating the assassination of Iranian scientists.
You’d think a law professor would understand that this go against Executive Order 12333 – United States Intelligence Activities which was put in effect by a Republican president:
No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.
Amazing.
wish I had said that
“I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.”
quote of the day
‘There is no war on terror’ | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited:
“London is not a battlefield. Those innocents who were murdered on July 7 2005 were not victims of war. And the men who killed them were not, as in their vanity they claimed on their ludicrous videos, ‘soldiers’. They were deluded, narcissistic inadequates. They were criminals. They were fantasists. We need to be very clear about this. On the streets of London, there is no such thing as a ‘war on terror’, just as there can be no such thing as a ‘war on drugs’.
“The fight against terrorism on the streets of Britain is not a war. It is the prevention of crime, the enforcement of our laws and the winning of justice for those damaged by their infringement.”
Think about that: who wants you to be afraid? These ‘inadequates’ or the people who want you to think about them all the time? They are the terrorists.
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