Wednesday, September 13, 2006
"WASHINGTON — The U.S. military acknowledged Wednesday that it considered bombing a group of more than 100 Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan but decided not to after determining they were on the grounds of a cemetery. [ As long as we continue to suffer Gramscian damage, we will keep making decisions like this. In the mistaken assumption that the enemy and the sea he swims in will be swayed by our moral example. This is ethnocentrism of a magnitude that ends only in disaster. -ed. ] "