A Question for the "Pundits" about terrorist attacks...

[WCGreen]

If, as the president keeps telling us, we are fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here....

And if, the president keeps telling us that the people still fighting in Iraq are terrorists....

And if, as the president keeps telling us, US troops are over there to fight terrorism....

Then how can they, by that I mean the pundits and the president and all of his minions, keep telling us we haven't been attacked since 9/11?

But that isn't the question...

The question is how is it that no one questions the fact that America is safer today because of president Bush when 135,000 of our citizens remain in harms way and are indeed targeted by the so-called terrorists in Iraq?

You can't have it both ways....

Perhaps if those 135,000 US men and women were deployed in Afghanistan and used to beef up our security here at home, we wouldn't be creating so many future threats....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Well thought.......

Indeed........We are creating future threats by our actions in Iraq!

There weren't any terrorists there before we preemptively attacked Hussein.

And now Iraq is full of them, from all over, and of course, some are home-grown......

We are responsible for having created those terrorists.......

Your points are very well taken......

K&R.........

[thecrow]

2. K&R

[concerned citizen23]

3. Iraq the epicenter of worldwide terrorism

A point to consider, our 135,000 soldiers are being terrorized and bogged down by an estimated 20,000 insurgents in boot camp training in Iraq.

I understand what the Bush regime really means when they say "Iraq is central to the war on terror"

Bush's biggest lie is now our biggest nightmare: Iraq is the epicenter of worldwide terrorism

The following articles shed quite a different light on the seriousness of the situation

Iraq Runneth Over
What Next?
By Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack
Sunday, August 20, 2006; Page B01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/18/AR2006081800983.html

7 Facts You Might Not Know About the Iraq War
By Michael Schwartz
TomDispatch.com
Sunday 20 August 2006
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=114108

Terror war doesn't go to the swift
Watching and waiting are needed for success
John Arquilla
Sunday, August 20, 2006
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/08/20/INGSPKIK631.DTL

[WCGreen]

4. Just as the Mighty Israeli Army was bogged down my

a militia....

[concerned citizen23]

5. So true...Vietnam as well...

And as the war in Vietnam should have taught our military strategiest...

Terrorist and the asymmetrical nature of the tactic itself necessitate the need for a different strategy if we are to win this so called “war on terror.” Preemptive attacks on sovereign nations and the bombing and destruction of cities and killing of innocent civilians is not the solution. The placement of our soldiers on the ground, dressed in battle fatigues are sitting ducks when fighting an enemy they cannot properly identify. Of course this is exactly what the terrorist would want us to do. Our soldiers might as well be “The Red Coats” marching in center fields fighting the militias hidden behind trees during our revolution.

To quote John Arquilla, a defense analyst at the Naval Postgraduate School, who stated recently, "Strategic bombing has been a failed military concept for ninety years, and yet air forces all over the world keep on doing it" … "The warfare of today is not mass on mass," he said. "You have to hunt like a network to defeat a network.” Mr. Arquilla has been campaigning for many years to change the way America fights terrorism.