Lockerbie

Is it possible that "the Obama administration's mealy-mouthed response to that outrage is a disgrace"?

National Post writer David Frum writes, Why, no outcry?"

I smell a rat in the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi.

Here's what U. S. President Barack Obama had to say about the release. "We thought it was a mistake."

In a written statement, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pronounced herself "deeply disappointed."

Does that not seem like strangely mild language to use about the release of a man convicted in the worst international terrorist attack against U. S. citizens before 9/11?

Two hundred and fifty-nine people were killed aboard Pan Am Flight 103 by a planted bomb. One hundred and eighty of them were Americans; three were Canadians. (One of those Canadians was a friend of mine, a brilliant young woman newly engaged to be married.) The details of the deaths are harrowing, including the high likelihood that many passengers were not killed instantly by the bomb but were asphyxiated by the decompression of the cabin or burned by jet fuel.

So why such a mild response to the Scottish decision?

He speculates why. FASCINATING READING from a well-respected journalist.