Just as the Dems are taking credit for enacting all the 9/11 committee recommendations (heh) one of liberal journalism's (or as I like to call it Jibernoulism - heh) true heroes Robert Fisk pronounces:
The tape emerged only hours after the US said it had placed Fatah al-Islam on its now 43-strong list of "terrorist" organisations which would have their funds frozen in the US and would not be permitted to enter America. Fighting to the death amid the ruins of the camp, it is highly doubtful that the gunmen there have bank accounts on Wall Street or that any have applied for visas to the US. But that's the way the "war on terror" works. Each side ratchets up the odds and kills more human beings.
Wow, what cynicism is this that we are not even allowed to stem the flow of money to and keep out our enemies? Fisk has made an idiotic statement here that is much more appropriate to the Huffington Post than the Independent. Is he really so absurdly clueless that he doesn't understand that all Islamic terrorist have financiers and much of that money is raised by sympathizers even here in the US. So what the hell is wrong with trying to stop that? What is wrong with keeping them out of here? Maybe that gunman doesn't have a bank account here in the US but being designated as a terrorist organization will help the US to stop the people who put the gun in his hand. And banning him from our shores will keep him from coming here to get those contributions that can't be sent by wire now (or rather may still be sent but making it a crime now). I can't believe this man gets so much praise for this brand of high school level sniping in his reporting.
And furthermore, I am sooo sick of these caring, compassionate people acting like they are the only ones who understand that killing people is a bad thing. Yeah, guess what Fisk, we all get it. We just are grown up to realize that if a person is gonna come kill you it is quite right to kill them first. And since these guys are al Qaeda supported they are clearly interested in destroying us. That makes them targets. Save your little crybaby pouting about the poor dead terrorists. Go back to Afghanistan and let some more of your poor Taliban friends beat the crap out of you again.