The philosophers of chaos reap a whirlwind

[Wwagsthedog]

http://www.iht.com/articles/107407.html

William Pfaff IHT/TMSI
Washington's utopians

PARIS; The intensification of violence in Iraq is the logical outcome of the Bush administration's choice in 2001 to treat terrorism as a military problem with a military solution - a catastrophic oversimplification.
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Choosing to invade two Islamic states, Afghanistan and Iraq, neither of which was responsible for the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, inflated the crisis, in the eyes of millions of Muslims, into a clash between the United States and Islamic society.
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The two wars did not destroy Al Qaeda. They won it new supporters. The United States is no more secure than it was before.
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The wars opened killing fields in two countries that no one knows how to shut down, with American forces themselves increasingly the victims. This was not supposed to happen.
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The killing was one way in September 2001: Al Qaeda killed Americans and others in New York and Washington. Later in 2001 and in 2002, the killing was overwhelmingly in the other direction. Taliban soldiers, Al Qaeda members and Afghan bystanders were the victims, in uncounted numbers.

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[whirlygigspin]

1. Oh well, better not start crying in your teacup

Resident Bush can bomb and invade every country in the middle east,
Sharon can build walls 800 feet high for all it's worth,
it still won't change the fact that if you want peace you have to have justice.

[Paschall]

2. Coulter's recent rantings about McCarthy...

...brought the same thoughts to mind. I don't believe the militarization of what is essentially an ideological "war" will ever be effective. And as McCarthy's excesses showed, the victims are not always on the battlefield.

Well, those of us who argued against the incursions in Afghanistan and Iraq have been vindicated, but that is a very, very bitter consolation.

[Old and In the Way]

3. "a catastrophic oversimplification"

An apt description for this administration, period.

We had a window of opportunity back after 9/11 to deal with the true roots of terror. Instead, this administration chose to settle old scores and further a different agenda that had little relevance to our national security needs.

So our international reputation is in the crapper, we have had our domestic freedoms eroded in the name of the Republican "War on Terror" and the criminals currently residing in our Executive Branch are privitizing our national Treasury.

God Bless America.......