This Is War. This Is Your Brain On War

Derrick Z. Jackson is a columnist for the Boston Globe. I've only read a few of his columns; he strikes me as the Syl Jones of Boston, but I could be wrong.

He sounds the usual bleat of the left - the headline ("Still no mass weapons, no ties to 9/11, no truth") truly sums up most of the column, conveniently releasing you from reading most of it (Thanks, Globe editors! - Ed.).

So had Hewitt not drawn my attention to this graf last night, I might have completely missed it:

With no weapons, no ties, and no truth, the capture of Saddam was merely the most massive and irresponsible police raid in modern times. We broke in without a search warrant.

Quick, Derrick Z. Jackson - tell John McCain he has a wrongful imprisonment suit against the North Vietnamese!

We had no warrants for Herman Göring, Albert Speer, Von Ribbentrop or any of the other Nazis, either. It was, and is, war! You don't need a warrant to capture the enemy!

Civilian deaths constituted justifiable homicide. America was again above the law.

No. We were, and are, the law - as we have been in nearly every case where the UN needed actual international "law" enforced.

We have taught the next generation that many wrongs equal a right.

No. We taught them that sometimes war is the lesser of many evils.

In arrogance, we boasted, "We got him!" The shame is that we feel none for how we got him. The capture of this dictator, driven by the poison of lies, turned America itself into a dictator.

When conservatives attack the patriotism of liberals, I think this sort of column is exhibit A.

Posted by Mitch at December 18, 2003 01:17 PM