Post on Monday, follow up on Tuesday

| March 23, 2004

Bret Stephens, writing at OpinionJournal.com, follows through on what I wrote yesterday. OK, OK, he was making a different point than I was, but it’s still an excellent read. Among other points, Mr. Stephens makes the case that deterrence might actually be a more valuable rationale than I noted yesterday. To date, there has not […]

Just Desserts

| March 22, 2004

About Israel’s removal of the terrorist leader Ahmed Yassin, Andrew Stuttaford in NRO’s The Corner asks, Yassin was, undeniably, a bad man and there’s no need to shed many, or any, tears over him, but can anyone explain what, exactly, was achieved by his killing? I would think the answers would be obvious: deterrence and […]