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Re: Tuesday, August 12, 2003
I believe the Bush administration blew a thousand chances to make the world a better place between 9/11 and the Iraq War, but I also think they made America a safer place (at least so far). Their fuck-ups are well-known; but what about their successes — those tragedies that never happened? I'm sure there have been some. So: Credit where due. Doc, here's the problem. While it's possible that there have been a few cloak and dagger, spy film worthy "tragedies that never happened," we havn't heard about any of them. Team Bush has had a few media-ready events, a well-timed announcement here, a terror alert there, but none have had any actual content. The sad and frightening truth is there's been little to no evidence of any substantive or lasting progress in the "war on terror." A few purported terror cells have been broken, e.g. the Buffalo five, but many of those charges are fishy (e.g. the so-called "dirty bomber") and since everything goes under military purview, information about this "progress" is not available to the public, or even to members of congress. Afghanistan is sliding back into warlordism and the Taliban is increasing its territorial holdings there. At the same time, we're frittering away our civil rights at home, occupying a nation which did not threaten us at great human and financial cost, running a gulag for suspected terrorists in Cuba, and continuing to make a complete nash of the situation. The Bush approach to the War on Terror has, like the rest of his term in office, been drivin by ideology, not facts. As such, he's failed to give us any results to give him credit for. We all want to believe that the President is doing something right, but here's no sign of it that I can see. There's no there there man. Faith-based foreign policy doesn't get results. There are responses to this message:
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