Posted on 02/20/2020 7:03:05 PM PST by karpov
Imagine, in the waning days of World War II, any American publication — let alone the New York Times — publishing an opinion piece by one of Hitler’s deputies, running this identifier (with an honorific, always an honorific):
“Mr. Himmler devised the very first concentration camp for Nazi Germany.”
Sounds like something out of The Onion, right? But this, in effect, is what the Times did on Thursday, publishing an op-ed by Sirajuddin Haqqani, describing him as “the deputy leader of the Taliban,” rather than what he is: an unrepentant terrorist.
In a column politely titled “What We, the Taliban, Want,” Haqqani claims that the Taliban, which provided safe haven for Osama bin Laden to plot 9/11, “did not choose our war with the foreign coalition led by the United States.”
?!?!?!?!
It’s hard to decide what’s more horrific: The notion that the Times’ top editors agreed to run Haqqani’s piece as-is or that they really feel he has a point here.
Haqqani has been among the FBI’s Most Wanted for years. There’s a $5 million bounty on his head. Our intelligence agencies don’t even know what he really looks like.
Yet here’s the New York Times, in pleasant communication with a terrorist who — wait for it — once held a New York Times reporter hostage! For eight months! Until he escaped and ran for his life!
Self-loathing liberalism doesn’t get much lower. And they know it — for this article, online commentary has been disabled. If you’d like to weigh in on a Times piece about a controversial man trying to reinvent himself, head on over to the profile of Ben Affleck.
Haqqani promises, in his op-ed, “a new, inclusive political system in which the voice of every Afghan is reflected and where no Afghan feels excluded”
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Is Mullah Omar an austere religious scholar?
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