David Brooks, on a debate between pundits Jeffrey Goldberg and Reuel Gerecht over Mideast policy:
When it was Goldberg’s turn, his first observation was that sometimes fevers break the disease but sometimes they kill the patient. The only difference, he said, between the terrorists and the “moderate” Islamic supremacists that Gerecht would empower is that the terrorists want to kill all Americans and all Jews whereas the moderates only want to kill all the Jews.Posted by Stephen Silver at July 24, 2006 12:16 AM