10.30.2005

New Delhi Blasts

The death toll in those blasts keep rising. How horrible.

But those Palestine Hotel blasts - the three aimed ringing the hotel where many of the journalists stay in Baghdad - made me very uncomfortable with the race to just state as fact these were done by the insurgency. Oh yes, it's very possible they WERE planted by the insurgency.

But we've had so many lies from Rummy, DoD and the White House, how can we ever believe anything said? Many of the journalists in that hotel are more critical of Bush's war than the insurgency.

Connecting back to New Delhi, the picture is still not clear on who planted these. "Terrorists" we hear. As the Christian Science Monitor pointed out soon after 9/11 to the rage of this nation, "One person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter." Or soldier.

These days, when I think about who the terrorists are, I'm looking far more at Washington than I am the Middle East, Muslim countries, and nebulous news reporting.