God of War

One facet of the War in Iraq I find brilliant.

"So we'll fight them there, we'll fight them across the world, and we will stay in the fight until the fight is won."

Originally, I think the idea was supposedly premised on the misguided notion that the Al-Qaeda was in Iraq. Only they weren't in Iraq. At least not in any great numbers. While I'm sure Saddam was happy to throw them a bone once in a while, he was running a secular state. He and fundamentalist Islamic terrorist organizations didn't exactly see eye to eye. And we knew this.

Now we have admitted that since the war started, all kinds of terrorist organizations have begun to concentrate in Iraq with the goal of destroying the US presence there. And I think that was one of the considerations in going to war. Present a remote site where Islamic zealots could attack the US without actually attacking the US or putting American civilians in harms way.

It's a brilliant idea. It has been as much as articulated by the president and other government spokespeople. I thinks it's a bit immoral though. Let's use someone else's country as the outhouse. Let's put a generation of young American in harm's way. And perhaps over time we will discover that we made terrorists as fast as we could kill them.