As if this is any surprise, my post of yesterday segues nicely into the latest media “bombshell.” Let’s see, Iraq is a center of terrorism. Is this surprising? The Middle Eastern country goes from brutal dictatorship to an experiment in democracy with rival religious and ethnic factions ready to kill one another, and we’re shocked that terrorists would take advantage of this?
As usual, the New York Times has taken the lead in releasing a government report that makes Republicans look “bad” or “stupid,” take your pick. The 2006 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) says that, according to an unnamed leaker in the newspaper, the Iraqi effort has made terrorism worse.
This is transparently one more liberal effort, obviously, to “get Bush,” ironically at the same time that Bill Clinton bashes an interviewer because, he claims, he was closer to killing Osama bin Laden than Bush ever was. However, closer though he may have been, he was also the bigger coward. He was scared to death of a negative headline, 3,000 or so World Trade Center victims be damned.
Anyway, if the Dems succeed in taking over the government and pulling us out of Iraq, look for the “Greater Iran” effect, whereby a terrorism network–soon to be armed with nuclear weapons courtesy of Iran–stretches from Teheran to the Paris of the East, Beirut, unimpeded, and threatens the destruction of the one bastion of democracy in the area, Israel, then us.
Choices, choices.
Tomorrow, I promise, back to Poor Richard.
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