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Sgrena Revisited
Mar. 17th, 2005 10:59 amThis is the lead story on Crux, a Catholic site that might be fairly described as conservative if not out and out reactionary. But don't let that stop you from clicking. The Sgrena story seems to be no longer the property of the tinfoil hat brigade. My own attitude is, Wait a century or so and we might be able to make a good guess about what went down. But it looks like the Europeans, I mean Old Europe, yes, Catholic Europe, is making its guesses even as we speak. Type. Whatever.
Was the victim of the shooting really the Italian 002? Was he really on the phone to the PM's office, if only to tell his wife he was coming home, when he was shot? The implications are staggering, even if he wasn't taken out by a death squad triangulating his cell phone.
Is there a secular Ba'athist faction among the Iraqi rebels, including Chaldean Catholics in communication with the Vatican? It seems probable, though the sources may have as much reason to exaggerate its importance as Washington may to ignore it.
It doesn't look good. But to me it never did. Then again, I'm a conservative, not a neoconservative.
Was the victim of the shooting really the Italian 002? Was he really on the phone to the PM's office, if only to tell his wife he was coming home, when he was shot? The implications are staggering, even if he wasn't taken out by a death squad triangulating his cell phone.
Is there a secular Ba'athist faction among the Iraqi rebels, including Chaldean Catholics in communication with the Vatican? It seems probable, though the sources may have as much reason to exaggerate its importance as Washington may to ignore it.
It doesn't look good. But to me it never did. Then again, I'm a conservative, not a neoconservative.