Politics: Okay

I'm trying my best to get back into the blog of things, since this past week has been sheer, unadulterated suffering, nonstop.

In an effort to return to the blogosphere with my credibility intact, I'm going to run down some thoughts:

The Boston Globe has an interesting piece on the internal debate within the White House over whether to kill or capture Saddam Hussein. I had a brief discussion with Aaron over at naw, and there are two serious ways to look at this. Hussein in jail (and, in my opinion, Uday and Qusay in jail as well) and enduring an ugly trial where his terrible inhumanities would be paraded about could be very good for the American occupation. (This is based on my belief that the resistance claiming a half-dozen soldiers a week isn't actually Saddam loyalists as much as it is Shia resistance not interested in waiting until the Bremer brand of democracy comes to fruition.) The Globe pointed out that any half-competent defense attorney would probably highlight a lot of the U.S. culpability in creating Saddam Hussein as the madman he became. Therefore, for me, the question of a trial for Hussein remains open.