The War on Terri

Terri Schiavo would get better treatment if only she'd been a member of al Qaeda, according to this sobering piece by Andrew McCarthy:

In this instance, though, deafening is the only word for the silence of my former interlocutors — -civil-liberties activists characteristically set on hysteria auto-pilot the moment an al Qaeda terrorist is rumored to have been sent to bed without supper by Don Rumsfeld or Al Gonzales (something that would, of course, be rank rumor since, if you kill or try to kill enough Americans, you can be certain our government will get you three halal squares a day).

Not so Terri Schiavo. She will be starved and dehydrated. Until she is dead. By court order.

What a sick world we abide in when a much-wronged innocent woman is sentenced to death in silence while Saddam Hussein enjoys his tete-a-tetes with his Democratic Party bigwig lawyer.