The War Continues

The Bush Administration is very unbalanced in the War on Terror. Assume that the United States isn't a Terrorist Organization of its own. Imagine that some sick terrorist wants to kill innocent people to prove a point, or simply doesn't care that innocent people will get hurt - we call that "collateral damage". Imagine that bombs go off in your neighborhood and innocent people are killed, and that Dirty Bombs made of depleted Uranium pollute your land - oh, wait - ummm...America is doing that in Iraq!

Let's take another analogy: a terrorist is a dirty, filthy cockroach. Bush wants to squash each of them with his foot, Rummy wants ever stronger poison. Haliburton wants to sell you expensive night-vision glasses so that you can "rid the World of this scum". This is offensive. The root cause is not being addressed and the terrorist cockroaches are breeding in the walls - you will never kill them all, you can't stop them from reproducing - you have an Endless War. Bush and cronies refuse to consider the source - "Why do they hate us?" - when it is all about prevention, not aggression. We leave food out to spoil and blame the roaches for their reaction. Bush isn't addressing any root causes. The flaw in this analogy is that killing roaches doesn't make them breed any faster, but our offensive occupation does make the terrorists grow in numbers, so the situation is actually worse. I'm not asking for some liberal "let's hug roaches", but a rational approach to feeling more secure.

The other aspect is the huge expense "over there", with a pittance for looking after the security of people "at home".