Blowing Them Away Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

[go west young man]

http://tomdispatch.com/post/174906/philip_k_dick_meet_george_w_bush

The Bush administration has, so far, only been willing to carry out “decapitation” strikes in countries where human life is, by implication, of less or little value. It has yet to carry one out in London or Hamburg or Tokyo or Moscow or the Chinese countryside, even though “terrorist suspects” abound everywhere, even (as with the anthrax attacks of 2001) in our own country. On the other hand, given the impetus of this kind of globalization, who knows when such a strike might come. After all, the CIA has already carried out clearly illegal, sovereignty-violating “extraordinary rendition” operations (kidnappings of terror suspects) on the streets of European cities.

[laststeamtrain]

1. K&R. "Philip K. Dick Meet George W. Bush." Love that headline. n/t