Friday, March 16, 2007
War on Terror - KSM's World War
The Wall Street Jounal's featured editorial for Friday, March 16, 2007...
Here's The Journal's conclusion:
"When the 9/11 Commission concluded that the failure to avert that awful day was above all 'a failure of imagination,' the Pillar world view is Exhibit A. And we mention it here because now, after five years without a terror attack on U.S. soil, that view is making a comeback in the growing opposition to holding enemy combatants in Guantanamo or to warrantless wiretaps of al Qaeda.
As KSM makes clear, bin Laden and his acolytes declared 'war' on the U.S. in his fatwa of 1998, a fact the U.S. only figured out on September 11. He professes to regret the death of women and children, but calls such indiscriminate killing 'the language of any war' and justified by his religious motivation.
'For sure, I'm American enemies,' said KSM in his broken English. For sure, too, he is a reminder of the evil that still confronts us in this conflict with radical Islam, and one that we underestimate at our existential peril."
