FISK OR RALL - THE ANONYMOUS SOURCE? Cynthia Cotts' weekly "Village Voice" Press Clippings column ponders the fate of "Wall Street Journal" reporter Daniel Pearl (link via Romenesko). Her column includes this interesting quote:

"One war correspondent speculated that Pearl is 'paying the price for U.S. hubris'—that is, for a government that pursues foreign policies based entirely on self-interest, while forgetting that unilateralism has consequences and can 'piss people off.' "

The people who kidnapped Pearl are not anti-globalization protesters who are expressing their rage the only way they can. They are terrorists who are demanding that the U.S. release Pakistanis in custody. They are of the same ilk as those who murdered 3,000 innocents on our soil and caused billions in property damage. Some of our policies may have been wrong in the past, but fighting terrorism is self-defense, not "hubris" or "self-interest."