The week.(Afghanistan, Coalition forces' moral highground, Jay Rockefeller, journalists see Republican loss in Congressional elections as blessing in disguise)

* Could someone just provide a list of things that don't provoke Muslim rage?

* The United States did not bomb 190 Taliban gathered in an Afghan cemetery because "coalition forces," as the Army put it, "hold themselves to a higher moral and ethical standard than their enemies." It's a close call: If we'd killed them right there, it would have been cheaper for everybody to get to the funeral.

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* Sen. Jay Rockefeller has added the last sprinkle to the cake. He believes, as do most anti-warriors, that the Iraq War was badly planned and badly fought, and that the Bush administration lied its way into it ("absolute cynical ...