Murder is murder, even if it’s done by airstrike
Eli over at Left I on the News discusses the reactions to the Pentagon’s plans to employ death squads:
In the meantime, lots of people are discussing the new Newsweek article which talks about Pentagon plans to create death squads in Iraq to assassinate suspected insurgents. From the reaction to that news, you’d think that the U.S. forces haven’t been carrying out systematic assassinations in Iraq for months, in Fallujah and elsewhere; they just do it the coward’s way, from the air, instead of from the ground. And without a peep from the “establishment”. The ground has been so well paved by the Israelis, I’m sure it hardly seems remarkable to most people.