Al-Q Honcho Hit

[Dennis Perrin]

I knew it -- the wiping out of a handful of al-Q thugs, at the hands of the
US, incites all manner of "legalistic" hand-wringing, at least from the
rational left. We have yet to hear from the ultra faction, but I'm sure the
sentiment is the same (though wasn't when the Red Army did this and much
worse).

Just a reminder: al-Q is at war with us. They said so quite explicitly in
1998, and offered a hard reminder in 2001.

I suppose you could cry about a bunch of Nazi officials getting blown up in
their jeep by Allied artillery -- after all, why not arrest them and put
them on trial? Oh damn, then there's that tangle of "victor's justice" and
all that icky Nuremberg junk.

Wring, wring . . .

DP