The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Try a Little Tenderness
“The man who took the decision to free the Lockerbie bomber from jail on compassionate grounds accused him yesterday of breaking an undertaking not to celebrate his release,” London’s Times reports:
Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the bombing, had shown “no sensitivity” to the families of those who died, Kenny MacAskill, Scotland’s Justice Secretary, told the Scottish Parliament.
One might observe that al-Megrahi displayed an even greater lack of “sensitivity” to the families when he murdered “those who died.” Still, it’s an indictment of the Scottish penal system that it was unable to drum some sensitivity into the guy during his eight-plus years in its custody.
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