Comments on: Matthews Responds to ‘Perspective’ Quote

By: PAUL

PAUL — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:37:47 +0000

“I told the students that my way to deal with terrorists was to do what Golda Meir did after the killing of Israeli athletes at the Olympics: track them down and kill them one by one and be rough about it. ”

Fred-Same quote jumped out at me-

Does this mean torture? If you ‘rough’ them up before you kill them…

(as a very ‘unofficial’ report of what transpires at the Black Prisons-

Heroin-they string these guys out, and then cut them off from it…pain is amplified a thousand fold due to increased sensitivity)

By: AcademicElephant

AcademicElephant — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:49:58 +0000

I’m with Fred on this one–I thought the whole death squad thing was rather creepy “tough guy” talk and that that pose was undermined with that “we need to get behind the massive hatred of us in the Muslim world” line, which is a reprise of the “different perspective” comment from the Toronto speech which was and is so objectionable.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 05:45:11 +0000

Ahh…thus, the ‘alleged’…of course, you’re quite right…

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 05:24:48 +0000

If I remember accurately the last time that anything like what Matthews is suggesting happened, the Israelis went after someone in Sweden. Of course, he looked a little different after the passage of so many years and, of course, he had a different name but he looked an awful lot like the guy in their picture. So they killed him and were rough about it (whatever that means). Anyway, as you can guess they got the wrong man and they got caught. It was a major international incident and it involved only one terrorist. Now just imagine this multiplied one hundred, two hundred or a thousand times.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:46:49 +0000

Well, you had to foul things up by throwing that ‘alleged’ in there…

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:54:02 +0000

So Chris Matthews of the Democratic party is in favor of American Death Squads travelling the world assassinating alleged terrorists. I can just see the New York Times editorial page commenting on this one. Perhaps with something along the lines of “20 whacked in France this month, but only 5 in Germany. What’s gone wrong?”

Do these people have any idea what their talking about?