"But he [Alger] also argues that to go after terrorist groups is slippery right-wingism.


Maybe he would rather we invite the terrorist to kill more people? What is his need to defend the indefensible?"


Neither of these statements are remotely true. What I call "slippery" is not going after "terrorist groups," but calls for the massive use of military force against targets that are somewhat specificied in clumsy rhetoric, but ephemeral in reality. It means indiscriminate killing, which both constitutes and causes more terrorism.


And I haven't said a word in defense of terrorism.