Monday, March 07, 2005

Kook Alert

"I believe, but it's only a hypothesis, that the happy ending to the negotiations must have been irksome," she said. "The Americans are against this type of operation. For them, war is war, human life doesn't count for much."
-- Giuliana Sgrena, "Italy Honors Slain Intelligence Officer"

"There were conflicting reports on the extent to which Italian authorities had informed their American counterparts about the operation, in which a reported $6 million was paid for the journalist's release."
-- John Phillips, "Italians kept U.S. forces in dark"

Links, of course, from Drudge. Bribing terrorists by paying them vast sums of money... yet another example of long-term strategic interests betrayed for short-term political gain. The chief weakness of democracy.

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