Don't Trust Snakes: More harm than good?

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Thursday, June 08, 2006

More harm than good?

More Harm Than Good
Depending on whom you ask, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death won't necessarily improve the situation in the war on terror. - ABCNews.com, June 8, 2006

Uh, oh, I hope Zarqawi doesn't turn out to be a kind of Gandalf or Obi-Wan Kenobi!

This must be one of the ways journalism has evolved since, say, World War Two. I don't think anyone ever asked whether ambushing Heydrich's car or shooting down Yamamoto's plane might do "more harm than good." What's the alternative, just let them be?

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