Tuesday, September 16, 2008
As long as it's the Saudis doing it: Time: Out of Its Mind
In Time, Bobby Ghosh, the magazine's world editor, has written perhaps the single most morally vacuous piece about the War on Terror since the attacks of September 11. Ghosh took a trip to Saudi Arabia and while there he decided not to dwell on 9/11 because "It seemed unfair to burden Riyadh with the legacy of its most notorious son -- especially since the city wants so badly to expurgate him from its self-image."...
From the Time piece:
...How did the Saudis do it? They used a combination of brute force and subtle persuasion. Few details are available on the crackdown on terrorist groups because the authorities here don't much like talking about it. So it's a fair guess that many of the means they used wouldn't pass any Western human-rights test. Riyadhis speak in whispers about midnight raids, arrests, torture and summary executions. The government also put the squeeze on al-Qaeda's sources of funding by imposing rules on previously unmonitored religious charities. In private, officials boast that bin Laden's organization receives no money from his homeland...
Well, at least it's not the evil Bush Administration doing it. That would be bad.
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