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The Right-Wing Response to 9/11: All Talk, No Results
June 24, 2005
Whenever the president’s domestic agenda hits rock bottom--like
clockwork--right-wingers trot out the 9/11 card to distract people
from wildly unpopular policy decisions.
On Wednesday, the president’s chief political architect, Karl Rove,
claimed:
"Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare
indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers."
We’ll never know his exact motives, but perhaps the president’s
self-described "Turd Blossom" was projecting the administration’s own
need for counseling to make up for its complete lack of success in
fighting terrorism.
1,382 days after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is still at large and al Qaeda
is regrouping.
More than three-and-a-half years ago Bush vowed to capture terrorist
mastermind Osama Bin Laden "dead or alive."
He’s failed.
The administration wants you to think it is hot on his tracks,
however.
CIA director Porter Goss said he had "an excellent idea" where Bin
Laden is hiding.
Vice President Cheney said he had "a pretty good idea of a general
area that he's in."
With all the bluster, you’d think they could close the deal.
1,382 days after 9/11, terrorist attacks are at an all time high.
By quantitative measures, the Bush administration’s approach to
combating terrorism is an abject failure.
Last year "[t]he number of serious international terrorist incidents
more than tripled," according to the Washington Post.
State Department data shows that "attacks grew to about 655 last year,
up from the record of around 175 in 2003."
How did the administration respond?
By halting the publication of the State Department report.
1,382 days after 9/11, the Iraq war--a complete diversion from the
fight against al Qaeda--has produced more terrorism not less.
According to the CIA, "[t]he war in Iraq is creating a training and
recruitment ground for a new generation of "professionalized" Islamic
terrorists."
An in-house CIA think tank concluded that in the poorly planned
aftermath of the invasion, "hundreds of foreign terrorists flooded
into Iraq across its unguarded borders."
There is a serious risk that Iraq is now "creating newly radicalized
and experienced jihadis who return home to cause trouble in Saudi
Arabia, Egypt, and elsewhere."
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Bluster and chest-beating is the right-wing way of trying to detract
from the fact that they're failures. Losers do that, ya know.
Harry
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