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Monday, March 16, 2009

Criminals usually kill people to get cash. Terrorists get money so they can kill people.

Jonah Goldberg: terrorists are not criminals. And he's right.

The Guantanamo Five aren’t gangsters, and they aren’t criminals. Criminals usually kill people to get cash. Terrorists get money so they can kill people. Criminals do evil to get pleasure. Terrorists eschew worldly pleasure to do evil. Bank robbers may strap bombs to themselves, but they do it to terrorize tellers into handing over the money. Terrorists skip that part and go straight to blowing themselves up.


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