Please read Juan Cole's piece on September 11 and its aftermath. I doubt anyone who reads my blog actually believes Bush's blatherings about the perpetrators "hating freedom", so I may be preaching to the choir, but this piece explains the real strategic thinking involved.
Posted by geoff2 at September 11, 2004 03:20 AMdon't forget "ignorant" in your tagline...
Posted by: at September 12, 2004 10:56 PMSigh. I guess I'll have to disallow anonymous comments if people are going to post stuff like this. (Based on the IP address of 24.61.43.214, he or she is an attbi.com customer, probably in the north-east of the USA.) Of course anonymity suggests that the individual in question isn't prepared to stand behind their assertion. I am happy to admit that Juan Cole knows more about this topic than I do. (He's paid to do so, after all.) And I also assume, absent evidence to the contrary, that he knows more than our anonymous poster. So what's the basis for this "ignorant" accusation? Probably a partisan bias that blinds the writer to boring things like analysis and fact. Pretty pathetic.
Posted by: Geoff Arnold at September 12, 2004 11:52 PM