Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s confession seems to have prompted more head-scratching than soul-searching. Fair enough for everyone to wonder whether KSM really did commit all these crimes, but as Dean Barnett points out, “regardless of the rough proportions between truth and b.s. in his comments, one thing shines through – this is a profoundly evil man.” Barnett is most troubled by the pride with which KSM declares his guilt in the murder of Daniel Pearl: “I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew Daniel Pearl.” Says Barnett,
Despite being confronted by such obvious evil, Barnett says Americans and their institutions, with the exception of the military, remain largely insulated from the war on terror and indifferent to the threat we face from the “potentially tens of millions more just like him out there.” Barnett’s analysis is right on the money, as usual.
