Bad days
Everyone is talking about ‘The Salvador Option’ which Newsweek says the Pentagon is considering for Iraq. I can see how that may be the only way to win this war, and I can see how the War-First crowd, more specifically those who find winning to be an end in and of itself, would find it attractive. But I just have to mention that once you've hired terrorists (and yes, Death Squads are most certainly government sanctioned terrorists) to fight the terrorists then you lose whatever moral credibility you thought you had after you said that Torture was totally awesome. I mean, we can make equivalencies until the cows come home, but if you want moral authority you have to actually be moral. Or at least keep up appearances.
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I'm bothered too that this is the option we're stuck with, but I don't necessarily see Death Squads as terrorists simply because they're fighting terrorists. I mean, the Death Squads wouldn't be fighting to establish a theocratic police state where everyone who's not a Sunni man is ripe for extermination. They're clearly a notch or three below the Zarqawi guys on the badness scale.
It already *is* "bad days" in Iraq. For my money, Death Squads aren't some quantum leap in either direction.
But, whatever. It doesn't make a difference what I crow about now, because we won't know how any of this will go down, come together, or fall apart until 2.1.05.
Oh, man. It's probably going to suck.
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