Regardlessof Loughner's viewpoints and mental health, Palin and others who spread outrageous, extreme, and inflammatory attitudes help to create an environment that leads to events like this.
If you doubt that, imagine what Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck would say if Howard Dean put crosshairs on a conservative congressman who was then shot and critically injured. I guarantee that they would not be picking nits about how liberal the shooter was.
Would propping up an Afghanistan government make any more sense if it were less corrupt? Of course, it is unlikely to become less corrupt at the point of a gun.
Perhaps the denouement of the Diem government is a cautionary tale.
I don't know whether the 'Western Security Expert' opinion that Saleh and Atmar were getting a better reputation for cleaning up corruption means they were really cleaning up corruption, or just on the take from the West. As for suggesting that Karzai might replace them with corrupt cronies, uh, how can a 'Western Security Expert' talk about Karzai and installing corrupt cronies in the same sentence with a straight face?
Regardlessof Loughner's viewpoints and mental health, Palin and others who spread outrageous, extreme, and inflammatory attitudes help to create an environment that leads to events like this.
If you doubt that, imagine what Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck would say if Howard Dean put crosshairs on a conservative congressman who was then shot and critically injured. I guarantee that they would not be picking nits about how liberal the shooter was.
Would propping up an Afghanistan government make any more sense if it were less corrupt? Of course, it is unlikely to become less corrupt at the point of a gun.
Perhaps the denouement of the Diem government is a cautionary tale.
There are no al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Taliban Reject Peace Talks
Bombings in Jalalabad, Kunduz, Qandahar
Juan,
I don't know whether the 'Western Security Expert' opinion that Saleh and Atmar were getting a better reputation for cleaning up corruption means they were really cleaning up corruption, or just on the take from the West. As for suggesting that Karzai might replace them with corrupt cronies, uh, how can a 'Western Security Expert' talk about Karzai and installing corrupt cronies in the same sentence with a straight face?