Weekly Standard: Americans should be indifferent to the
impact U.S. policy has on al Qaeda recruiting.

post from Think Progress on 09 May 2008 05:46:00 PM. © Think Progress

Writing on the Weekly Standard’s blog yesterday, Michael Goldfarb said that he doesn’t “care” if President Bush’s policies have been a “recruiting tool for terrorists“:

As to whether Bush is a recruiting tool for terrorists?who cares? Al Qaeda was recruiting before Bush was in office and they will continue to do so after he?s gone. The important thing is that we keep killing those recruits. Eventually, one side will give up.

Justin Logan at Cato-at-Liberty points out Goldfarb’s flawed logic, noting that it justifies doing anything that is counterproductive because “after all, al Qaeda will continue recruiting whether we do it or not.”

(HT: Matthew Yglesias)

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