May 18, 2003

3 for 3 Richard Bennett

3 for 3

Richard Bennett posted three things on Sat. May, 17, and three of them are great: a clear, incisive (and to my mind right on) discussion of common sense, tax-cuts, and tax policy in California; a wry comment on al Qaeda's "brilliant target selection"; and a post about the letter from ambassador Paul Bremer that recently appeared on WSJ Opinion Journal:

This part was especially appealing:
10. The State Department is to inform Gerry Adams that he will no longer be welcome in the U.S. as long as Sinn Fein-IRA continues its terrorism.

Too often, the IRA is given a pass, or worse, actually supported by American politicians of both parties. That's not good.

Quite. The biggest cynicism-inducing credibility gap in the war on terror has always been the administration's determined coddling of the Saudis, but indulgence of Adams and the IRA, effectively exempting them from the category "terrorist," is a close second.

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