I have some comments on Andrew X’s proposition that prosecution of the Bush administration will backfire. I believe that there is a strong probability of that, although I think that the flames of indignation have to be skillfully fanned by a prepared and coordinated opposition to those prosecutions.

The latest news (from the Washington Times) is that there may be investigations into the disappearance/deaths of some 2,000 Taliban prisoners, courtesy of the Northern Alliance.

How do you suppose many Americans would react to an attempt to make us/Bush look bad because of that, especially if the opposition media puts it in the perspective of 2001-2002? So 2,000 members of the movement that enabled the killing of 3,000 innocent Americans were wiped out? So friggin’ what? And it was Afghanis who did? So double-friggin’ what? This kind of deliberate flagellation of the American spirit after months of apology tours and stimulus packages that the American public never asked for, and deficits so huge even ordinary Americans are alarmed, and a Cap & Trade monstrosity at a time when everybody and his grandmother has noticed an unusually mild summer after a winter where it snowed in Vegas and Baghdad, and you get the proverbial, “straw, meet the camel’s back.”