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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (1986)5/14/2004 7:19:06 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Zarqawi: Not Our Enemy?

Best of the Web Today - May 14, 2004
By JAMES TARANTO
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"Many U.S. officials believe that Zarqawi is in many ways more dangerous than Osama bin Laden," ABC News reports. With bin Laden on the run and Zarqawi actively terrorizing Americans in Iraq, that seems a reasonable surmise. Among those officials is Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a liberal Republican, who tells the network: "The capture of Zarqawi should now have a higher priority than even that of Osama bin Laden."

To judge by a handful of e-mails we've received in the past 24 hours, not everyone agrees. Yesterday we criticized the Boston Globe for characterizing Nick Berg's murder as merely a part of a "cycle of violence." We wrote:

This is maddeningly idiotic. What the Globe calls a "cycle of violence" is actually a war--a war that America joined only after the enemy murdered 3,000 people on our soil. "On the ground in Iraq," the Globe opines, "the primary goal must now be the most difficult: to reverse, somehow, the deadly cycle of violence." It doesn't seem to dawn on the Globies that the way to do that is to win the war.

Reader Jackson Williams was among those responding:<font size=3>

A patently false statement. It is untrue to say that the "enemy" that we now find ourselves at war with--the now-ousted regime of Saddam Hussein?--"murdered 3,000 people on our soil." His regime did no such thing and you darn well know it.
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The refusal to acknowledge that our enemies in Iraq--including the remnants of Saddam's regime--are in fact enemies is bad enough. But what can one say about a mentality that leads people to think that even al Qaeda terrorists are not our enemies if they are operating in Iraq?
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