Pen-Elayne on the Web

Hatred Breeding Hatred

Not only are we failing to put genies back in bottles, we keep creating more malevolent ones. Self-described "secular leftist" Iraqi Raed Jarrar vents his anger at the latest assassination of a leader he calls "another safety value that the Bush and Sharon administrations destroyed." The theory that killing people solves problems rather than creating even more is, I fear, a political strategy I'll never begin to understand.