The National Intelligence Estimate that everyone is talking about shows, once again, that George Bush’s strategy to fight Islamic terrorists has failed. Instead of reducing the number of young Muslims who hate America and want to kill Americans, the one-track Iraq policy has increased the young haters whose ambition is to kill Americans.
Instead of using the National Guard for its natural mission of securing guarding our ports, chemical plants, and refineries at home, Bush has left our homeland’s belly exposed by sending Guardsmen and women to die in an age-old ethnic strife in a land that did not attack or threaten America.
Instead of building on the unprecedented international primacy and leadership we Americans were accorded in the wake of the 9/11 butchery, he has alienated our friends, and stripped us of much-needed strength.
All this, and much more, is the reason Bush can, and should, be called “the Weakener-in-Chief:” he has weakened, not strengthened our country; he has lifted Osama bin Laden up, not brought him down; he has endangered us, not made us safer.
Given that the Bush strategy in the war on terror has failed so plainly, the “with-us-or-against-us” rhetoric should not work at all any more. George Bush had his chance to fight Islamic terrorism, for five years now, and he has failed. Because of incompetence.
The matter needs to be stated plainly: we don’t hate Bush because he is fighting terrorism, we want to replace him because he is not good at fighting terrorism.
It’s not that Bush’s critics are against the war on terror; quite the contrary, it’s that we want George Bush out of the way because he has failed to launch an effective war on terrorism. We want to start one now. Five years too late, and against an enemy much strengthened by the Bush missteps and bungling, and without many allies by our side any longer, but we’ve got to start sometime.
And, we have to win a few elections at home, before we can start to win the war on islamic terrorists overseas.
So, criticism of Bush, and political opposition to him, is not a way to aid terrorists; it is actually the first step to eradicating them.
We're not going to get rid of terrorism by force. Doesn't matter which set of rich people we elect.
The only way to stop terrorism is to stop creating the reasons for it. We should:
- Stop bombing other countries.
- Stop stealing other peoples's resources and scamming our way into control of their corporations.
- Stop supporting Israel.
Until we do all those things, we'll not only suffer from terrorism, but on a moral level we'll deserve it.
Posted by: Chuck Dupree (Belisarius) on September 26, 2006 5:44 PMAccurately stated, Chuck. Thank you. And might we add: "to improve the moral level", while considering the above fantasy, demand (ha, ha) that the USA-controlling parasites and their scared lackeys reduce, or at least make more subtle, less "Christian"-in-your-face, their grand theft of life, limb, and means from the overwhelming majority of "their own" citizenry.
Posted by: Hoffmann on September 26, 2006 9:02 PM