Iraq War strategy to keep terrorists in Iraq has failed miserably - Terrorists spreading all over

[ck4829]

The War on Terror has become the Incubator for Terror.

"U.S. counterterrorism officials are paying renewed attention to an increasingly dangerous incubator for extremism: a swath of northern and sub-Saharan West Africa, from the Atlantic coast of Morocco and Mauritania to the harsh deserts of Chad.

The centerpiece of terrorism problems in the region is Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, better known by its French initials GSPC. Late last year, it joined forces with Osama bin Laden and renamed itself al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, an Arabic term used to refer to North Africa.

"The threat from al-Qaida's presence in the region is significant, very dangerous and potentially growing in a couple of cases," Assistant Secretary of State David Welch told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

In interviews, senior government officials go even further as they talk about recent developments in the impoverished region of North Africa, the Sahara, and the grasslands to the south known as the Sahel. The vast area has the potential to become more volatile, said three senior officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of their positions."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070609/ap_on_go_ot/africa_terror_incubator

[genie_weenie]

1. Well, the "fight'em there so we don't fight'em here"

line has been used continously since Reagan warned the Hondurans are really close to Texas and by unsubtle inference from attacking every good honest red-blooded American.

What we have today is a confluence of several evil and ignorant trends:

On the evil side: The Warmongers and those tied into the arms/defense industry want to keep troops in Iraq and the money flowing from DC for as long as possible.

On the bad side: The American people are numbed and deluded into a state of ignorance by Hannity/Limbaugh/Coulter and the like who obfuscate on the true nature of warfare and terrorism for goals of their own, which usually involve retaining political power (i.e. the power to force people to conform to their idealogy).

This is exacerbated by America's bad understanding of history, current oil/power consumption and seperation by 2 oceans from the rest of the world.