Smart and helpful piece by Richard Miniter in the WSJ today, taking us through the extraordinary missed opportunity of 1996 when the Clinton administration refused a Sudanese offer to hand over Osama bin Laden. Sandy Berger turned the Sudanese down. If I were him, I’d have trouble sleeping at night.
CENSORING HEROISM: The Houston Chronicle strikes a blow for p.c. censorship. In running a piece from the San Jose Mercury News about Mark Bingham’s life and death, the Chronicle took pains to remove any references to Bingham’s sexual orientation. Bingham, a gay Republican rugby player, was one of those who almost certainly wrestled the plane destined for Washington to the ground in Pennsylvania. Gay people as American heroes? Too much information for the Chronicle’s squeamish editors. I guess they’re just following the policies of the Air Force.
