Monday, April 12, 2004
WHAT IF BUSH HAS ACTED EARLIER ABOUT BIN LADEN? I know I'm being lazy at the moment but here's another link from Sullivan, this time an alternative history of events if Bush had in fact reacted in the fully effective way possible to the vague warnings in his intelligence briefing. Neatly encapsulates the dilemma that the war on terror brings with it: be hit first and then retaliate, or strike first to avert catastrophe, but do so in diplomatic and legal hot water, in turn causeing other problems?
