Jacob's Politics

Arianna Huffington concurs

I wrote yesterday about Bush's completely idiotic thinking about fighting terrorism "there" to keep US safe "here" when he said "We're taking the fight to the terrorists abroad so we do not have to face them here at home.".

It is nice to note that Arianna Huffington concurs.

London: Bush’s “Flypaper Theory” is Blown to Pieces

Odds are we probably won’t be hearing for a while the Bush mantra that the reason we're fighting them over in Iraq is so we don't have to fight them here at home. For the last few months, this ludicrous shibboleth has been the president’s go-to line -- his latest rationale for slogging on in Iraq. Not only was this “flypaper theory" empirically disproved by the London carnage, it directly contradicts the president’s other most often used justification for the war -- that we invaded to liberate the Iraqi people. So let me get this straight: we invaded them to liberate them... and to use them as bait to attract terrorists who we could fight on the streets of Baghdad rather than the streets of London and New York?

posted by Jacob Matthan @ 04:21