Charles Pierce: Paul Ryan, Mentoree to the Zombie-Eyed Bishop-Killing

From the article:

"...In recent months, Ryan has been receiving briefings from Elliott Abrams, George W. Bush's former Middle East director at the National Security Council, and Fred Kagan, one of the architects of the military surges in Iraq and Afghanistan, as first reported by Weekly Standard reporter Stephen Hayes on Twitter. Another conservative foreign-policy specialist who has briefed Ryan said the Romney campaign in Boston has arranged for briefings with a parade of former government experts on foreign policy in recent weeks.

Collectively, of course, these names represent the senior faculty of the Pontius Pilate School Of Foreign Affairs, but let us pay particular attention to Mr. Abrams, a formerly convicted felon. Back in the cowboy days when St. Ronnie winked at the rape and murder of American churchwomen in Central America — noted funnyman Al Haig suggested the four murdered nuns ran a roadblock, and radio comedian Laura Ingraham once told a reporter from the Times magazine that she was going down to stay "at the Four Dead Nuns Inn." Yes, they're all sociopaths — besides being a co-conspirator, Abrams was the pre-eminent cheerleader for that policy, which included the murder, on the altar, during mass, of Archbishop Oscar Romero, a crime committed by men for whom Abrams was a conspicuous apologist. In that hilarious hometown fluffer in the Times today, we were told by the story's four authors that...

The Ryans are Catholic — Paul was an altar boy — which was "an important part of Paul's value system," Tobin Ryan said. "We were raised to develop our faith and beliefs independently." Mr. Ryan, more than his wife, Janna, often takes their three children to church, Mrs. Thorpe said.

Maybe, during a break at his next foreign-policy briefing, Paul Ryan, devout Catholic, can ask his primary foreign-policy mentor whether the guy's feelings about gunning down archbishops in the middle of mass have evolved over the years.

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