November 23, 2005

Gaffney is Right

Steve Clemons goes after Frank Gaffney for saying exactly what I did: al-Jazeera could be a legitimate military target. Gaffney told a reporter,

We're talking about a news organization, so called, that is promoting bin Laden, that is promoting Zawahiri, that is promoting Zarqawi, that is promoting beheadings, that is promoting suicide bombers, that is other ways enabling the propaganda aspects of this war to be fought by our enemies, and I think that puts it squarely in the target category.

Clemons now wants a whole host of Bush administration officials to distance themselves from Gaffney's opinion. If pressed Condi Rice, Stephen Hadley, and other will do so...publically. It doesn't look good for the MSM to tell the world "Bush Administration Supports Bombing Media." Their moral relativism will prevent them from addressing what al-Jazeera does. They'll simply consider the network an Arab version of the BBC. Privately I hope administration officials see the importance the media plays in the Iraq War. An overt bombing run would be a mistake, but having al-Jazeera's satellite antenna malfunction or their web servers go down wouldn't be bad.

"Frank Gaffney: Bomb the Bad Media. . .If the Shoe Fits, Bomb Al-Jazeera" [via memorandum]

UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds adds, "[S]ince Al Jazeera is a CIA front operation we'd never bomb it. Duh."

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