Dead Flowers
Steven Taylor tells us what happens when The Stupids Go to War. One passage from the Time article stands out:
That agent, who worked for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), told [Afghan tribal leader Haji Bashar Noorzai] that a grand jury had issued a sealed indictment against Noorzai 3 1/2 months earlier and that he was now under arrest for conspiring to smuggle narcotics into the U.S. from Afghanistan.
Here’s the thing: the process of getting the sealed indictment must have been fun for the District Attorneys working the Noorzai case – a nice break in the routine, a whiff of the exotic. The incremental further ruin of a faraway land wouldn’t have figured in their calculus at all.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector —
February 14, 2007 @ 5:04 pm
What should have been done? Forward the smack on to Amsterdam?
Comment by sean —
February 14, 2007 @ 7:51 pm
District Attorneys? What do you mean? This is a federal case.
Comment by Jim Henley —
February 14, 2007 @ 8:56 pm
TSI: What, Noorzai doesn’t have people for that himself?
sean: True enough. “prosecutors” would have been better.
Comment by charlie —
February 14, 2007 @ 11:30 pm
Jim
This is off topic. I’d like to hear what you think of the piece ” The Fall of Modernity” by Michael Vlahos in American Conservative.