Thursday, November 17, 2005
Admitting Bush Played Into Osama's Hands is Defeatist?
Bush's "Excellent Iraq Adventure" was apparently about as big a blunder as Pickett's Charge:
To repeat: Michael S. Doran's 2002 article notes that "Al Qaeda wanted Washington to dispatch U.S. troops to the Islamic world, so Muslims would turn on governments allied with the United States -- and provoke their collapse..." (Source: Robin Wright An Eye for Terror Sites, Washington Post, Nov. 17, 2005 [emphasis added.])
W and his Bush league minions exploited the country's post-9/11 anger to do precisely what Osama Bin Ladin wanted - they invaded a Middle Eastern country and started killing lots of civilians. Now, various Mid-East governments are destabilized, just as Osama planned. What is Bush's plan to counter this trend? He's having Dick Cheney call people names! Isn't it reassuring that the adults are back in charge?
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Robin Wright writes in The Washington Post about Michael S. Doran, who ended up on the National Security Council staff in charge of the Middle East after writing a defining piece in Foreign Affairs magazine -- " Somebody Else's Civil War."
"Osama Bin Laden had 'no intention of defeating America,' Doran wrote. 'War with the United States was not a goal in and of itself but rather an instrument designed to help his brand of extremist Islam survive and flourish among the believers.'
"Al Qaeda wanted Washington to dispatch U.S. troops to the Islamic world, so Muslims would turn on governments allied with the United States -- and provoke their collapse, Doran explained. 'Americans, in short, have been drawn into somebody else's civil war.'
"That argument is at the heart of U.S. policy in the Islamic world, which has shifted from President Bush's first-term focus on fighting terrorism to the second's emphasis on democracy as the salve to extremism."
(Source: Dan Froomkin Cheney Unleashed, Washington Post, Nov.17, 2005. [Page 5])
To repeat: Michael S. Doran's 2002 article notes that "Al Qaeda wanted Washington to dispatch U.S. troops to the Islamic world, so Muslims would turn on governments allied with the United States -- and provoke their collapse..." (Source: Robin Wright An Eye for Terror Sites, Washington Post, Nov. 17, 2005 [emphasis added.])
W and his Bush league minions exploited the country's post-9/11 anger to do precisely what Osama Bin Ladin wanted - they invaded a Middle Eastern country and started killing lots of civilians. Now, various Mid-East governments are destabilized, just as Osama planned. What is Bush's plan to counter this trend? He's having Dick Cheney call people names! Isn't it reassuring that the adults are back in charge?
