How low can they go?

I am surprised the NY Times or any other major paper would grant access to their opinion pages to someone who writes this garbage. This is a lot more than just allowing different points of view, which I am all for.
The writer claims we are not more successful in the middle east because we are not killing enough civilians.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/02/18/nyt/print.html