Say Duh!

Apparently stem cell research and cloning can have a beneficial effect. In the first known case of it's kind, a functioning brain has been grown inside a neocon head:

It now seems apparent that the information incriminating Mr. Arar originated with Syrian military intelligence. The revelation that Canada and the United States rely heavily on Syrian information exposes one of the most disturbing secrets of the war on terror.......

The Arar case should raise some belated red flags over the real value and true purposes of all this Syrian "co-operation." Whenever one intelligence agency provides information to another, the recipient should wonder: "Why are they sharing this with us? What benefit do they derive?" That question should be asked with special intensity when the information comes from an unfriendly country like Syria.

And yet the Arabist faction within the U.S. government has responded to Syria's maneouvres with almost childlike credulity, believing what the Syrians say -- and even betraying both American principles and American interests by subcontracting torture to them.

The reliance of Western agencies on Syrian information has cost the Canadian taxpayer $10- million in damages. It cost Maher Arar indescribable suffering. And the damage this reliance has done the real security of the West -- that cost goes beyond calculation.

It cannot be. George Bush betraying both American principles and American interests by subcontracting torture? But isn't this type of activity what neocons like Frum and their sympathizers have encouraged for years? A bout of conscience or another rat jumping a sinking ship? I'll bet on the latter.
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