Thursday, September 23, 2004

 
will toss in the following from an email sent a few days ago(one typo corrected): "Jonah subscribes to a nearly universal fallacy when he writes in an otherwise competent column, "It is the difference between fighting a bastard of a neighbor who's got a home and family to defend and fighting a Charles Manson cult that wanders into town."
The terrorists(including those carrying out suicide missions)do, of course, have homes and families. Thus far(the war on/in Iraq doesn't count- thus far)we have chosen not to attack those homes and families.
One can be proud of this(see the praise for Israel in the TNR piece by Halevi and Oren), but the resistance to even thinking about such attacks seems to be a form of psychopathology in the West. And if Jonah does [lie]awake thinking about it, but decides not to share this with the public, that says something too.(not sure what-outta' time for now) [Jonah's point #2 does make amends for a botched sentence he wrote when making something like this assertion many months ago. ]