> Even the hint of apologetics for Talibanism in places like Pakistan
> by reference to drone attacks, etc.
By the way, what does this mean? The drone attacks are horrible. You think there's something ok about them?
You seem to have some political sympathy for Christopher Hitchens. What do you make of this remark?
> If you're actually certain that you're hitting only a concentration
> of enemy troops...then it's pretty good because those steel pellets
> will go straight through somebody and out the other side and through
> somebody else. And if they're bearing a Koran over their heart,
> it'll go straight through that, too. So they won't be able to say,
> 'Ah, I was bearing a Koran over my heart and guess what, the missile
> stopped halfway through.' No way, 'cause it'll go straight through
> that as well. They'll be dead, in other words.
Doug