Mark, I find myself agreeing with George Will now and again these days. I think the old right-left paradigm is breaking down. Melanie --- mark ganzer <ganzerm@msn.com> wrote: As distasteful, and soul-saddening as the practice is, reading the op-ed rantings of right-wing war-mongering bloviators is an exercise that can unearth unimagined nuggets. With a pulitzer prize under his belt and the austere credentials betokened of Fellows of the American Enterprise Institute to establish his impeccable criciculum vitae, we anti-war citizens of planet earth owe our gratitude to the mighty Kraut for putting on public record the neo- / theo-con, war-mongering crowd's opinion that aerial bombing of civilian targets and infrastructure is a terrorist tactic. I second that motion. Now that we're agreed on that point ... it is time to consider fully and carefully the appropriate response towards nations that sanction such acts of terror and that countanence such war crimes. Never before could I have imagined a circumstance under which I could type these four words in the following order, in utter sincerity: Thank you, Doctor Krauthammer. From his Monday column ( Http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/27/AR2006072701725.html
"When one is wantonly attacked by an aggressor, one has every right -- legal and moral -- to carry the fight until the aggressor is disarmed and so disabled that it cannot threaten one's security again." "Britain was never invaded by Germany in World War II. Did it respond to the Blitz and V-1 and V-2 rockets with "proportionate" aerial bombardment of Germany?" ... "In perhaps the most blatant terror campaign from the air since the London Blitz, Hezbollah is raining rockets on Israeli cities and villages." Politics and war, make for strange bedfellows. Mark Ganzer
