For — whoops! — losing a senior al-Qaida operative, who apparently broke out of Bagram prison in Afghanistan this summer. The escape of Omar al-Farouq, one of Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenants and the point man for al-Qaida in Southeast Asia, raises additional questions about the Bush Administration’s handling of detainees in the war on terrorism. The White House’s just-trust-us approach to the matter would have greater credibility if its moral obtuseness weren’t compounded by incompetence.
Most Popular
Recent Posts
- 1930: In case you missed it August 09 2014
-
Book excerpt: “F.I.R.E.” April 29 2014
-
Two Cheers for the QDR April 06 2014
- 1973: Buy our drones! April 05 2014
-
Afghanistan or Talibanistan? April 02 2014
Popular Posts
Essay: Dumb-dumb bullets Every year, the services spend millions of dollars tea...
“Fiasco” By the winter of 2003-04, the Marine Corps was ordered...
Blood borders International borders are never completely just. But t...
About Us Armed Forces Journal Editor's note: AFJ is...
A failure in generalship For the second time in a generation, the United States...
Pipeline politics in Syria You can’t understand the conflict without talking about...
Recent Comments