The Staff meeting this week was unusually acrimonious. Our Ethicist was insistent on discussing the assassinations of two successive Hamas leaders; he wanted a column considering why, or whether, killing a Chief Murderer should be questioned, when no one has any problem with shooting a terrorist trying to blow up a few dozen school children, or with a lot of “Collateral Damage” when bombing anyone we disapprove of. Is it only a permissible good thing to kill the innocent and not the guilty? Why are leaders preaching death not a fair target? Our Political Branch (recently strengthened) proposed denouncing a counter terrorism policy in the U.S. that does nothing about ten or more million illegal immigrants, while making 3-year olds take off their shoes when boarding a plane. Finally, our Circulation Manager noted that our Readers, while generally sympathetic to our views, are getting their fill of the incompetent mess in Iraq, and would like us to give it a rest, already. In the end, we decided on a non-political rant about modern packaging and magazine trash (the physical kind).

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