Posted 9:56 PM by Floyd

Yesterday was "root causes" day at the Merc, which printed this shameful editorial. I reprint one paragraph which cries out for mockery:

To its credit, the administration is moving in the right direction on at least one diplomatic front. U.S. troops plan to leave Saudi Arabia, one of the most fertile breeding grounds for terrorists. With their departure, America will be further away from a conflict between the country's conservative monarchy and its even more conservative Islamic clerics who have long incited terrorists.

Hey asshat, the US announced that it would leave Arabia Deserta before the attacks. Did this do us any good?

(It is true that the next statement in the editorial is "The promise of troop withdrawals wasn't enough to prevent Monday's attack, whose target was not just America but the Saudi regime itself." This is not negate my criticism; it is merely evidence that the Merc's editorial writers are lazy, sloppy, and want to have their cake and eat it too.)