Legitimizing the Mumbai Perpetrators

"The attack on Mumbai is thus a useful reminder that we are not the only targets of Islamic fanaticism; and that in India we have a crucial Western ally, not only against Islamism, but against the growing military aspirations of China. Under present circumstances, we cannot cultivate the friendship of India too assiduously.Meanwhile, yesterday, the Bush administration announced that the Jihadis it is holding around the world at such facilities as Guantanamo, will now be entitled to Geneva Convention privileges, as if they had been legitimate soldiers.It is hard for me to fathom an act so irresponsible, though I perfectly understand the political and legal pressures (an obtuse recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court) to which the administration capitulated. These, in turn, were accentuated by its failure to make its own case effectively, in international propaganda. Too many outrageous lies and misrepresentations about Bush policies have been allowed to stand; and the validity of too much of the administration's moral reasoning has been left to speak for itself. "

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