What he fails to understand, particularly in light of the British attacks, is that any attack is an attack on humanity and is "home" regardless where it occurs. He can't seem to make that connection and that seems to convince him that the (unwinable)war he started is valid regadless how long it takes. Robert Scheer op-ed on lessons not learned.
BUSH IS SERVING UP THE COLD WAR WARMED OVER
by Robert Scheer
The "war on terror" is turning out to be nothing more than a recycled formulation of the dangerously dumb "domino theory." Listen to the way President Bush justifies the deepening quagmire of Iraq: "Defeat them abroad before they attack us at home." If we didn't defeat communism in Vietnam, or even tiny Grenada, went the hoary defense of bloody proxy wars and covert brutality in the latter stages of the Cold War, San Diego might be the next to go Red.
Now, the new version of this simplistic concept seems to say, "If we don't occupy a Muslim country, inciting terrorists to attack us in Baghdad, we'll suffer more terror attacks at home."
The opposite is the case. Invading Iraq has, like the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan before, proven to be a massive recruiting tool for Muslim extremists everywhere. Even the embattled CIA, which the White House is struggling to neuter as a semi-objective voice on foreign affairs, recently declared the Iraq occupation to be a boon to terrorists.
Yet the president stumbles on, demanding that we support his Iraq adventure, lest we sully the memory of the victims of Sept. 11, 2001. "We fight today because terrorists want to attack our country and kill our citizens, and Iraq is where they are making their stand," said Bush last week.
http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=rsc
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