QUOTE: Matthew Yglesias points out something I puzzled a bit over during last night's SOTU:
"I'm already seeing the president's thingy about how terrorism can't be fought with indictments alone praised on all the conservative sites. The president is right about this, of course, but he's so right that no one disagrees with him. In the wake of 9/11, virtually everyone felt we had to demand that the Taliban hand Osama over and shut down the camps. When they refused, everyone agreed that we had to go to war. Indicting people is a wonderful thing, but as we all learned on 9/11 it doesn't work very well when the guy you indicted just gets to hang out in another country."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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