…I am not a fan of John Kerry’s moral calculus. I reject his indignant demand that the U.S. just must bomb Syria in the wake of the use of poison gas. For sure it looks like a terrible way to go but there are other terrible ways to go, even worse ones. For example, Arabs have been known to castrate their victims, like Israeli pilots shot down over their territory and stuff their organs in their mouths. And one imagines they do it with their victim alive to send him from this world in a state of incomprehensible pain and horror.
Did Kerry and Obama call for such drastic action on hearing of the dozens of churches burnt in Egypt and dozens of Christians murdered in the last two years of Thomas Friedman’s Arab Spring… |