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Iraq is not the County Seat of World Terror
BBSNews 2006-08-12 -- The American people are well aware of a difference between Iraq and the war on terror. Because of the folly of the US war on Iraq, the United States has lost enormous amounts of prestige as an honest broker of power in the world by squandering the good will and almost unanimous support of the world in the wake of September 11th, 2001.
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Not Gaza, not Israel, not Lebanon and not Iraq. This photo is looking out at remains of the World Trade Center in the United States shortly after September 11th, 2001.
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After the attacks on the US by a small and dedicated band of whackos, the United States administration had the world in its hand.
For one small moment, momentous changes could have occurred that may have solved long festering Middle East issues in a clear and just way, where moderate Arab governments would have welcomed the chance to work with the US to be rid of extremist factions that in reality no one wants. And that would have thwarted some of the "root causes" of world terrorism that is today's buzz phrase.
Instead, the "go wide" doctrine was adopted. Overwhelming military force and American military expertise was brought to bear upon what is really an intelligence and specialized unit problem. As we have learned time and time again in the subsequent terrorist plots stopped by good old-fashioned police work. The latest apparent plot, to blow up some planes headed to the US from Britain in mid-air, where reports are saying over open water to bury evidence, were not stopped by the military either British or US. It was reportedly stopped by basic police work and investigation starting in Pakistan.
One glaring caveat to the reporting about this latest issue is the "open water" claim to hide evidence. Why would a terrorist, who generally wants to claim responsibility to gain acclaim within the ranks of whackoness, want to hide evidence? The more chilling thought is why would they not time such a bombing of planes to happen as they got over the US mainland? Not only blowing up the plane but getting the plane to blow up over the US and maybe take out a few more Americans?
It is a very important point for Democrats to realize that these whackos would not exist without little hot beds of contention over land that have been going on since World War II and well before. And it's important to realize that these latest results of positive police work were not gained by the US military being bogged down in Iraq.
They apparently happened as a result of other countries basic police and intelligence work. The US using the current formula is not solving the root causes of terrorism. It is instead sowing the monster seeds of another, even larger generation of people willing to buy into wanton terrorism simply because of the old battle between the "haves" and the "have-nots."
It can be solved by not engaging in wars against a country that is not directly threatening the United States, and instead actually addressing the "root problem" of world terrorism.
A new way would be to "go wide" this time and enforce every single United Nations Security Council resolution. Start at the largest thorns of contention (242) and then mop up the smaller resolutions. This would show a solid commitment by the United States to follow and indeed forcefully encourage the rule of law, fairness and justice for all parties concerned and not just a select few.
Democrats should remember that Saddam Hussein shook Donald Rumfeld's hand in the early 1980's at the behest of Ronald Reagan.
The United States most definately did not want Iran to win against Iraq during that earlier war and they were willing to look the other way and even abandon the Kurds to their own fate after the first US Gulf War.
Democrats should remember that Osama Bin Laden was not an enemy of the United States back during the days of the Russian's being in Afghanistan. Back then he was a well supplied "freedom fighter," not a "terrorist," and on the side of the US.
Democrats should remember that the current invasion of Lebanon by Israel on the pretext of a "cross-border" attack where it is quite dubious exactly what side of the border the attack actually occurred on, an operation that has been reported to have been planned by Israel for at least a year or so, has nothing to do with Iraq.
The latest violence that started in Gaza and flared into Lebanon (so far) was simply created by ignoring for decades United Nations resolutions. Had the United States stuck to it's previous position prior to 9/11 and then strengthened it afterwards with a real attention to justice and the rule of international law, a lot of lives could have been saved. Not too mention a lot of treasure.
US neo-cons want to claim that it is not that simple. They claim that "they" hate us. They want to "destroy" us. "They" have callous disregard for human life. And yet it was US policy that strangled Hamas' ability to provide humanitarian assistance to those under Israeli occupation. Did that make Hamas weaker? No. Much stronger. It begs the question does Hamas just care about their people as as excuse to wage some weird war against the west?
Democrats need to look at the real history in the region. They need to educate their constituents on what they find.
Has Israel's near destruction of the state of Lebanon weakened Hezbollah? No. By all accounts, the leader of this resistance group, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, that came about after the Israeli invasion in 1978, then 1982, and occupation until 2000 as all these groups always do, he's now the heir to Gamal Abdel Nasser. The talk of the Arab street is the feat of successfully resisting the Israeli's and their army in this latest invasion of Lebanon by Israel on a slim pretext.
United States policy keeps this going on and it must stop.
Democrats, must get the war in Iraq seperated from the real war on terror. Iraq was a war of choice. The current terror war is a war foisted upon the US because of previous irresolution and the current US administration.
Democrats must back the United Nations and do their best to find someone who can truly articulate a rule of law and justice as a representative of the United States to the world who believes in real justice. Not just this week's American interests only to leave when the need is gone.
Ned Lamont did not win the Connecticut primary over Joe Lieberman as a result of some blog comment that might have or might not have been anti-Semitic.
He won because most Americans believe that the US is on the wrong track and that the war in Iraq was a tragic and wrong move.
Osama Bin Laden should have been the focus. Had the current administration focused on that goal and attained it, well, George could have really been King.
Interpol should have gotten the strengthening. The FBI and CIA should have been strengthened and not castrated by politics. The "Homeland Security" behemoth should never have been created.
Think of Hurricane Katrina and worse, the next one...
Democrats should realize that old war movies are popular, but advertiser money is on problem solving forensics and so is TV viewing. People inevitably like to watch war, but only in small doses and they certainly do not want to live through it.
But Americans always are a sure bet to want to see a problem solved; a "perp" put in jail, and justice done. And that's the solution they always eventually tune into.
It's the democratic way.
It's the American way.
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