Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Tod Lindberg On Tancredo   [John Derbyshire]

Jonah: I read that Tod Lindberg piece you linked to. Plainly he has been contemplating the Derb strategy: "...Otherwise we could have flattened the place, turned the keys over to the toughest local goon, warned him to stay away from WMD, and left."



Any time I ask people what, exactly, is wrong with that strategy, their answer boils down to: "It wouldn't be very nice."



At which point I recall an editorial cartoon the London Observer ran at the time of Richard Nixon's bombing of Hanoi over Christmas 1972. Dick and Pat are sitting watching a TV screen, which is showing a flight of B-52s dropping bombs. Nixon is speaking. Caption: "What do you mean, 'It's not a very Christmassy thing to do'? They don't have Christmas."

07/26 10:24 AMShare