Some of the commentary, on the other hand, has been not just uninformative but counterinformative

Strangely enough, Kristol is not referring to himself here.

In nations like India (and the United States), governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists.

What a relief, I thought that we might need to do a lot of old-fashioned police work, diplomacy and targeted foreign aid. I was even afraid that we’d have to stop kidnapping and torture. So it’s patriotism, eh Bill? Thank goodness for that, wearing our Magic American Flag Lapel Pins™ is certainly easier than dealing with the root causes of terrorism and apprehending the hard core nihilists.

What’s the over/under on how many corrections the NY Times will have to run for this op-ed?

Kristol: “In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit. This can happen if those nations’ citizens decide they don’t want their own country to be dishonored by allegiances with terror groups. Otherwise, other nations may have to act.”

Right, and that’s precisely why the United States invaded Saudi Arabia shortly after 9/11, since the regime there was well known to be actively backing and supporting both Al Queda in general and the 9/11 hijackers, most of whom were Saudi. The trade embargo imposed on Saudi Arabia remains in place to this day, since the regime has neither admitted guilt nor changed its ways. And that was also why the United States cut off all military aid to Pakistan when it became clear that the Pakistani government was aiding and abetting not only the Taliban but Al Queda operatives, including Osama bin Laden his nasty self.

What? Oh, wait…

In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit. This can happen if those nations’ citizens decide they don’t want their own country to be dishonored by allegiances with terror groups. Otherwise, other nations may have to act.

And this is best done by invading surrounding countries, dropping bombs on their citizens, creating more terroists, killing them, then invading surrounding countries, dropping bombs on their citizens….oh God, I believe Bloody Bill’s Commodore 64 brain is caught in a for/next loop! Man the keyboard barricades! Slap the yellow ribbons on the bumpers, les citoyen!

Billy, here is a project for you. Look up these three words on Wikipedia (no, not Consevapedia). Poverty, Education, Opportunity. Now use them in an editorial on how to fight terroism… oh, never mind. To arms! To arms!

akkkkk !! i’m boycotting the NYTimes … until they become a “news” organization again .. if ever ..

Not quite as short Bill Kristol: India should do everything that the W Administration did in the so-called war on terror, because we all know how well that worked out for us.

“Is it just that liberal academics are required to include some alleged ugly American phenomenon in everything they write?”

The typical one-person-does-it-therefore-they-all-do-it association.

In nations like India (and the United States), governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.

I have superpower! It’s called PATRIOTISM! Whenever a terrorist is spotted, I confront him with PATRIOTISM! He then runs away in defe…
Oh shit.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. That was brought home over the weekend in an article in The Times of India on Sandeep Unnikrishnan, a major in India’s National Security Guards who died fighting the terrorists at the Taj hotel. The reporter spoke with the young man’s parents as they mourned their son: “His father, dignified in the face of such a personal tragedy, was stoic, saying he was proud of his son who sacrificed his life for the country: ‘He died for the nation.’ ”

I am ordinary. I have no superpower. Please don’t look at me MrTerrorist.

Here’s how I feel about Billy’s column:

I’m ambivalent. It’s been fun. It’s a lot of work. I have a lot of things going on. But I haven’t really focused on it.

They won’t run any corrections — they never did for Safliar (that is, Safire) after his Atta-in-Prague fantasies were debunked, because his piece was an opinion piece:

[NYT Public Editor Daniel] Okrent noted that it was hard to devise a “clear, public stated corrections policy” for columnists who are hired to express opinion. After all, Okrent noted, “opinion is inherently unfair.” Still, he recognized the need for some sort of corrections policy. And, with the help of Safire, he ended up defending a policy that–whaddayaknow!–protects Safire.

Funnily enough, this only works for righty columnists. When Paul Krugman made a good-faith cite of a portion of a Jason Leopold article in Salon, there was no opinion-piece blanket immunity for him: The Cons immediately pushed the NYT to go after him, and they pushed on Salon, and Salon fired Leopold and Krugman was made to apologize.

Of course. IOKIYAR. I’m wondering if that will start to wither away in 49 days… I’ve got my fingers crossed.

Thank you for your NqasBK — may Billy’s next pie be pumpkin!

o/t Are your relatives holidays too?

In time with the season, how about a fruitcake?

I hear Al Bundy has one he’s been booting around for a few years…

AL Oh, come on! That’s not what Christmas is about. Christmas is about family and giving.
Okay, here is all the crap my family gave us last year. [Al picks up the big box of Xmas
stuff] It’s time for the traditional re-wrapping of this garbage for your family. All
except Aunt Poo’s fruitcake, [Al picks up a fruitcake, wrapped in cellophane] everyone in
the family already got that.

BUD Dad, you punted that around the house last year.

AL We’ll give it to Steve and Marcy! Has anyone picked out a tree yet?

Well, Iraq hasn’t destroyed any more of our skyscrapers since we invaded them, has it?

Oh, wait . . . .

That photograph just never gets old.

Mister Kurtz, he dead.