Too bad there aren’t a lot of nuns in Iraq. I hear the rapin’ is much more fun when the victims have habits.

A reader writes:

Hey, Joe. How about addressing indications that the Bush Administration has employed the “Salvador” strategy to train death squads to take out militia leaders?

Joe answers:

I certainly hope so. If ever there was an appropriate circumstance for covert action—in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere—it is the effort to find and eliminate terrorists. They really are the enemy, you know.

I’m sure TIME will find someone to avocate for a return of slavery and the abolition of women’s sufferage soon.