A few things. First, the FBI follows militias in this country very closely and keeps tabs on the major players in them. 99%+ of people in militias are white, so to say that white "terrorists" are ignored is misleading. I'm not claiming that racism doesn't exist, the deaths and attacks on Middle Easterners is proof of that.
I don't know of anyone that is yelling for the US to bomb Afghanistan back to the stone age (or at least anyone besides a few ignorant morons). The vast majority of Americans (something like 75%) want a controlled and very targeted response. Not carpet bombings, not nuclear weapons and not indiscriminate killing of all Arabs. That is kind of a red herring argument that I've seen used a few times in articles like this.
They seem to forget things like that we give more aid to Afghanistan than any other country. We give economic help to countries that hate our guts. We send them doctors and medicine. We also, in contrast, have policies in place that kill innocent people (like the sanctions in Iraq). It's a difficult situation, one that isn't going to go away any time soon.
However the reason I think that guy is hopelessly partisan is that he makes no mention of Clinton. Bill Clinton blew up an aspiring factory, Clinton continued the sanctions against Iraq, he sent air raids against Iraq, he was the president while most of the millions of Iraqis quoted in the article were killed. Yet he mentions Johnson and Nixon.
He says
And so we
speak now of killing Arabs indiscriminately, of not
differentiating between the guilty and the innocent
Who says that? We? Who is we? Bush? Powell? Anyone in charge? Show me proof of that Tim Wise because I have yet to see anyone call for that kind of destruction.
More than likely we are going to be using rebel forces in Afghanistan to help us find bin Laden and his men. We are not going to just start killing people for the fun of it, this by all intents looks like it will be a very narrowly targeted attack on terrorists. That's how it should be.
BTW I'm a liberal so don't think I'm coming from the right. I'm not, but that kind of half-truth filled writing is what makes the left look foolish. It has several straw man arguments and is filled with obvious partisan bias.
Blackman4life-
Yes, they have caught the people that killed those Middle Easterners. They have also caught most of the other people that have attacked Muslims (and those that "look" like Muslims) and will no doubt be prosecuting them shortly.