Faux Noise finds source of world terrorism

[unhappycamper]

The terror of state health care
By Julian Delasantellis
Jul 24, 2007


It is now 402 years since Guy Fawkes' gunpowder plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London ushered in the modern phenomenon we call non-state terrorism. During that time we've heard speculation on the origins of the problem by everybody from popes and prelates to truckers and talk-show hosts, and most everybody in between who could put pen to paper or push wind through the larynx.

Still, at its most basic level, the causes and origins or worldterrorism have continued to be a mystery. Until now. Fox News has the answer to what causes terrorism - it's, of course, government-run health care!

Had the news executives of the Wall Street Journal recently tuned into what passes for Fox News' daily business program, Your World with Neil Cavuto, to see how their possible new bosses at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp handle serious news issues, they probably would have ended the hour either making sure that their pensions were vested enough to retire comfortably, or, failing that, that their razor blades were sharp enough to slit their wrists comfortably.

The topic was the arrest of Muslim doctors in Britain for alleged participation in the recent spate of attempted car-bombings. Identified as a contributor to National Review Online (although he is not listed as such at the site, nor does the site's search utility turn up any hits on his name), one Jerry Boyer, under the headline "National healthcare: Breeding ground for terror" reports, "You've got shortages of doctors and nurses wherever you've got state-run health care.

"In the United States, we import a lot of physicians, about a quarter. But in the UK they import nearly half, nearly half of their physicians and nurses from abroad ... this is a real vulnerability, and Neil, it's not just a matter of them supplying, the Muslim world, supplying physicians ... you also have a situation where a state-run health-care enterprise is bureaucratic, and I think that the terrorists have shown over and over again, whether it's dealing with INS or whether it's dealing with airport security, they're very good at gaming the system of bureaucracies, they're very good at figuring out how to get around bureaucracies."

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[displacedtexan]

1. Hm. Not word one about the consequences of empire building.

Shocker!

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[Liberal In Texas]

2. Their brazenness would be funny if weren't for the fact a lot of people are going to believe them.

State run health care = terrorism. Give me a break!

I guess Medicare is overrun with al Queda, by this logic.