Potomac Fever: What gets Jonah Goldberg and Glenn Greenwald to agree?

Thursday, November 12, 2009

A really smartly-written piece. It's not long and it's very much worth reading the entire thing.

evan said...: "Which is to say, it’s attitudes like Greenwald’s that helped Nidal Hasan kill 13 people at Fort Hood."

A bit of hyperbole doesn't help Patterico's case.

But anyway, I think Greenwald's bigger point is twofold -- first, the point Patterico attacks, but second, can any attack on a military base be considered terrorism? I'm not sure it can be. Certainly it's violent, and it can also certainly be illegal. But it's a decidedly non-civilian target. We've used terrorism in the past to apply to all attacks by non-state foreign actors (including the Cole bombing, the bombing of the Marine barracks, etc.) but I think Greenwald is onto something when he says that these attacks aren't really...terrorism. Which isn't diminishing how awful they are--but it isn't the same thing as an Oklahoma City bombing or 9/11.; November 12, 2009 at 10:37 AM

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