Opinion: In today’s pages: cheering Islamists and okaying genocide?
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Columnist Jonah Goldberg argues that Democrats, in arguing for withdrawal from Iraq, are giving the go-ahead for genocide:
It’s worth at least pointing out a key difference between the potential genocide in Iraq and the heart-wrenching slaughters in Congo and Sudan: The latter aren’t our fault. But if genocide unfolds in Iraq after American troops depart, it would be hard to argue that we weren’t at least partly to blame. Yes, the mass murder would have more immediate authors than the United States of America, but we would undeniably be responsible, at least in part, for giving a green light to genocide. Obama offers precisely that green light in his proposed Iraq War De-escalation Act.
Orange County teacher Jeffrey K. Wallace suffered a guilty conscience for having looted antiquities as a child, but now he’s sending his bit of rock back to Athens. The Heritage Foundation’s Brian M. Riedl sounds off on farm subsidies, and Douglas Ring and Diane Donoghue warn city officials that without better housing policies L.A. could become a ‘gilded ghetto’.
The editorial board explains why it’s OK to root for the Islamists in Turkey, why the Fairness Doctrine is unfair, and why the county needs to be open about using taxpayer money to settle lawsuits.
Letter writers respond en masse to William Lobdell’s personal story of losing his faith. Los Angeles’ Harry Shragg notes, ‘I am convinced that he has finally found his faith. It is faith in himself that is most important....’