July 23, 2002
Our Fearless Leader
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, speaking for presumably-vacationing President Bush, condemned Israel's bombing of an apartment building as "heavy-handed". "This...does not contribute to peace," said Fleischer.
Excellent advice from our administration. A better course for Israel, perhaps, would be to pick a country arbitrarily (like Afghanistan), repeatedly bomb selected sites in that country, that may be hosting terrorists, wedding guests, or any combination of the above, and call it an ongoing victory. Then Israel should announce plans to invade Iraq because...well, do they need an actual reason? (James Carroll has a great editorial in today's Globe wondering what the Iraq thing is all about.)
Or maybe we could learn a thing or two from Israel. They killed civilians and got their man. We kill civilians and Osama bin Laden is still unaccounted for.
Posted by michaelf at July 23, 2002 04:09 PM
