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Jim Henley (whom I understand has vaguely alluded to the "Green Wall" idea once or twice...OK. I owe him an apology. I apologize to him) writes:
What if it's true? That is, what if (Warning: Fictitious Entity Invocation!) "The Pakistani Government" really is playing footsie with al Qaeda and the Taliban - or at least the ever-popular "elements of Pakistani intelligence" are, and Musharraf and the Army either can't or won't stop them? Well, that's the thing. Henley doesn't know. I don't know. I very much doubt that anyone in the blogosphere knows (if anyone does have the smoking gun, or a video of it being fired, let me know). We may well have our suspicions, but not the kind of evidence that we could get a conviction on in court. And for that reason, I think that Jim Henley has done a very wise and admirable thing. To look at both sides of a question, particularly when one's character inclines one to one or the other side, is a Good Thing. I try, and I hope that I don't fail at it too often. Henley does it very well. Sometimes, as I've said, after looking at both sides of a question, we find that it has a right side and a wrong side, after which we'd better all be lining up on the right side. But we'd also better be able to make the case that it is the right side. John "Akatsukami" Braue Thursday, April 11, 2002 |
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