A few days ago I e-mailed several friends a Salon.com essay by Afghanian-American Tamim Ansary, urging us not to blame the starving people of Afghanistan for the actions of the Taliban that crushes them or the terrorists it shelters among them. One respondent agreed, but said the terrorists themselves and their supporters should be “stamped out like cockroaches.” I emphatically agreed.
Today Jef Raskin, the man who thought up the Macintosh, responded. “Stamp them out like cockroaches? No. Capture suspects and try them like humans. We have had too much treating humans like cockroaches.”