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November 14, 2005
Iraq is the New Afghanistan, Again
This ain't a clever and pretty post. Sorry. Just the facts ma'am.
It is now clear that last week's hotel bombings in Jordan were perpetrated solely by Iraqis, on the orders of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the (Jordanian) leader of "Al Qaeda in Iraq."
Y'know, two years ago the statement "Iraq is the new Afghanistan," might resonate in the popular culture as simply meaning, "whereas last year's war was Afghanistan, this year's is Iraq."
But now, and I'm sure many another editor out there is screaming it loudly (but it can't be screamed loud enough), we have proof of this statement's more important connotation: that whereas before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, that country existed under a brutal, totalitarian regime with few if any instances homegrown terrorism (thanks to the aforementioned brutal regime), it is now, after the U.S. invasion, a lawless landscape, divvied up by warlords and terrorists who use its soil as a recruiting ground, and training ground to export terrorism to other countries.
I told you this wasn't pretty. That sentence was a mouthful, indeed. But everyone who can muster a voice -- in print, on the air, on the Web, or on the local street corner, needs to disseminate this fact to an American public that might otherwise just wade back and forth between its own ignorance and Republican, damage-control talking points.
Good day.
Posted by MJuhre at November 14, 2005 12:35 PM