Just Let Him Die

Rumsfeld ignored ideals in the Hippocratic oath recently when he hinted that no one should treat Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who the military believes has been wounded.

“Were a neighboring country to take him in and provide medical assistance or haven for him, they obviously would be associating themselves with a major linkage in the al-Qaida network and a person who has a great deal of blood on his hands,” Rumsfeld said.

Or they could just let him die, putting blood on their own hands. Of course, ideally they’d treat him and extradite. But it’s hard to do that with a clean conscience, either, when we have “the gulag of our times” to throw him in.