George W. Bush's former Attorney General Gonzales now teaching at Texas Tech got a sidebar on the front page of today's (Sunday) Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, in relation to terrorism and the unfortunate young man from Saudi Arabia who got himself arrested here this week.
Probably the worst consequence of this alleged "terrorism" is the way it gives simpering refugees of the Bush administration a chance to get more attention and to air an opinion.
Poor Gonzales. He could fly to Kabul and hop up and down in the markets there, screaming his name and daring someone to shoot him, and nobody would waste a cartridge. Probably the same is true of his old boss.
Far as Dubya goes, this incident may have spiced up his life a little, and got him away from the booze. Being a former president is hell, unless you find a game worth playing.
You can infer that I feel a certain amount of sympathy for that young Saudi student who got arrested for planning acts of terrorism.
ReplyDeleteThat is true. Terrorism of this type is a form of mental illness. We need to get to the bottom of this type of behavior, to understand it and to treat it. Understanding is a prerequisite to fighting that form of terrorism across the globe.
Radicalism born of alientation, isolation, religious radicalism calls for sensitivity and psychotherapists rather than soldiers and SWAT personnel.