Addressing what seems to be to be the most serious of those charges, at least the only substantive one... and this isn't directed at you but at the post <g>
He found these men useful, and use them he did. ...Would you even shake hands with -- let alone serve on two boards with -- an unrepentant terrorist, whether he bombed U.S. military installations or abortion clinics?
Well, personally, no, I'd rather see all terrorist rot and die, ideally in pain and misery. However I do understand that other people have shaken hands with Gerry Adams, while making peace in Ulster.
But let's look at another noted terrorist leader who gained some acceptance later, even from the strictest US eyes.
He started as one of the leaders of the murderous Lehi, who negotiated with the Nazis to fight against the British. Even the UN condemned this gang as terrorists after WWII.
But you may also know Yitzhak Shamir as PM of Israel. Twice. Quite a popular chappie with Reagan, I seem to recall.
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Then there were the Contras, the Taliban (while they were fighting the USSR, that is), UNITA (ditto by proxy)... George Washington, another famous terrorist from the past... <w>
Shall we take it as a given that big boy politics unfortunately seems to involve accepting and working with people who deserved execution long ago? In other words you use what's there.
That holier, absolutist stance Krauthammer puts on just doesn't work.
BTW. If Ayers is/was such a terrorist, how is it he seems to be at large? Why hasn't he been arrested a long time ago - are the FBI acquiescing, accepting even, such a terrorist in high society? Purely on a technicality, which somehow absolved him of any possible crime with which he might be charged?
Puh-lease. |
