2005-07-08 Best of the Web Today

Date: 2005-07-08
Topics: \James Taranto\Wall Street Journal/articles\New York Times/criticism of\terrorism\US-Iraq War
URL: http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110006942
Title: Best of the Web Today
Text: (by James Taranto) "Root, Root, Root for the Bomb Team": “That's right, the Times is complaining that "wealthy nations have not done enough about the root causes of terrorism"! Now granted, one can talk of the root causes of terrorism without slipping into liberal weeniedom. This column has long endorsed the theory that terrorism springs from the tyrannical and fanatical political culture that prevails in most of the Arab and Muslim worlds. The Bush administration subscribes to this theory too, which is why it has embarked upon a strategy of democratization, a key element of which was regime change in Iraq. .. Do the editorialists at the Times disagree with this theory? No, apparently they are completely oblivious to it. First they complain about the failure to deal with "root causes," then they scratch their collective head over why we're "mired in Iraq."”
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