Steven Chapman gives Brendan O'Neill a good dressing down over this more or less risible foray into criticism of military tactics and strategy. Chapman is quite right. Eminent Journalist O'Neill doesn't seem to have much of a clue. Chapman does, and his discussion of these issues is stimulating and well worthwhile in its own right. That said, though, wars are not won by assassinations. The idea that we can win this war by picking off the bad guys one by one has about as much merit as the idea that al Qaeda could be vanquished by means of some kind of cavalry charge on the "open battlefield."
Posted by Dr. Frank at December 19, 2002 09:20 AM | TrackBack