John Kass is the Best Columnist in Chicago
There, I have said it. Read his column today, entitled
Terrorists take us to the real ring of hell (worth the registration required). Real meat:
Avoiding the Berg video, or the pictures of what happened to Johnson, or the images of the next American they grab, won't dull the knives of those who want us all dead. They want to drive Americans from where we want to stand in the world and send us quivering home.
Avoiding won't make us safer here, either. It actually may do us all a disservice, since it allows us to keep an emotional distance.
The flat of the killing knives is only an inch or two wide. It is much shorter than the distance between today and Sept. 11, 2001. We've achieved separation from each, and that is dangerous.
I don't know why Kass isn't a blogosphere superstar like Lileks, Appelbaum, or Steyn.