Sunday, October 31, 2004
On the Inability to Focus
WP: Group Says It Warned U.S. of Munitions Cache0 comments
One issue that seems to have been missed by the Bush administration, and by most others in the inflamed discourse over Weapons of Mass Destruction or WMDs (Oh, how I have come to despise that glib phrase!), is the fact that the overriding idea is to prevent preventable deaths.
Nuclear weapons kill people. Bio agents kill people. Weapon-grade chemicals kill people. Yes.
But as those who perished at Bull Run or Little Big Horn will tell you, musket balls or arrows also kill people. Nothing more high-tech than a small mass of metal hurtling at an alarming rate of speed is needed for it to be a weapon of mass destruction—when the mass that's being destroyed is your own.
Simply put, dead is dead.
Excuse the 1,100 dead in Iraq for feeling no particular elation at finding no WMDs.
posted by Gotham 1:18 AM
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