Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks journalist who published revelations about US war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, is closer to being extradited to the United States to face espionage charges in a kangaroo court. Meanwhile, the criminals he exposed live comfortable lives.
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Chalk one more up for Babara Tuchman and her three criteria for wooden-headedness:
“Counterproductive in its own time”? Check. “A feasible alternative course of action must have been available”? Check. “The policy in question should be that of a group, not an individual leader, and should persist beyond any one political lifetime.” Check.
This will alienate Biden from those elements of the left whose gag reflexes have, somehow, still not been triggered, but it will do little to nothing to gain him traction with the right. The media has mostly given up, but even they must have trouble framing this.
I hope Assange lives to 2022’s elections, so he can see the chickens begin to come home to roost for the democrats.
“Committed war crimes in Iraq” should be in a three-piece suit in a corner office.