Since I failed once again to sleep during the night, I’ll be taking abrief nap, and will resume blogging in the early afternoon. In the meantime,here’s a question to ponder:

The Bush strategy for fighting terrorism, at least in theory, relieson the idea that free countries will breed and export fewer terrorists.I’m open to this idea. But in a world where it takes maybe 50 guys with a modest-to-large bankroll to pull off something like 9/11, is creating fewer
terrorists really going to help appreciably? Even if the Bush strategy
convinces 95% of potential Al Qaeda recruits not to join up, isn’t it
that really, really crazy top 5% that gives us the most (visible)
trouble?

Discuss.

– Daniel A. Munz

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.