Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Lara Logan’s War Cry - The Daily Beast

It's said a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.
Lara Logan is sounding awfully conservative of late.


Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/09/lara-logan-s-war-cry.html

...the foreign correspondent and 60 Minutes star skewered American policy in Afghanistan and Libya, called for a ramped-up military campaign against terrorists, and criticized the Obama administration and others for both underestimating the Taliban’s strength in Afghanistan and for tolerating Pakistan’s obvious coddling of terrorists killing American soldiers.The Taliban and al Qaeda, she made clear, “want to destroy the West and us,” and we must fight fire with fire, She appeared to leave the assembled alternatively riveted and just a bit troubled by a critique with interventionist implications clearly drawn from her reporting.
As one nonprofit executive, a former magazine editor, put it the next day when asked to describe her speech: “Shoot ’em, bomb ’em, fuck ’em. They will kill your children.”

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