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Walter Shapiro wrote:
“Proving yet again that there are indeed second and even third acts in American lives, Bill Ayers had transformed himself over a quarter of a century from an on-the-run-from-the-law member of the Weather Underground to a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.”
With these words you hint at the possibility that Osama Bin Laden may one day be considered a “distinguished” professor or citizen some where in the world, even in the United States.
If Ayers did it why not Osama? And Osama would not have to repent, Ayers has not.
Thanks to you and journalists like you we are in our way to make it possible.
Did not Obama say he might sit to negotiate with Ahmadinejad? Might it not be that in the future you write an article about Ahmadinejad’s visit to the White House where he was honored with a state dinner?
And Ahmadinejad would not have to repent about his plans for the annihilation of Israel.
Repentance is not a requisite for acceptance of terrorists anymore in the America that you are helping to build Mr. Shapiro.
