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August 17, 2005
Helter skelter
Cathy Seipp says lots I have been meaning to say about pleas for "understanding" the jihadi point of view vis a vis the massacres of September 11, 2001. The final paragraph stands out.
"This is the biggest unsolved homicide in American history," Lance said a few minutes later. It is? I thought at this point it's not much of a whodunnit. But that take on the event, of course, illustrates the divide between those who consider 9/11 an act of war and those who think it should be prosecuted as a police matter. If Lance and those who agree with him are correct, though, then you have to wonder why it even matters what ordinary mass murderers would like. Were the political grievances of, say, Timothy McVeigh ever discussed seriously? Should we have considered meeting the demands of Charles Manson?
Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 17, 2005 08:36 AM
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