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Sep. 11th, 2003 08:15 amPresident Bush said Iraq has become the "central front" in the war on terror.
I realized with a chill what he really meant. Terrorists and other shady characters from all over the Middle East are converging on Iraq to take pot shots at the troops, relief aid workers, UN workers, and Halliburton contractors.
They're converging on Iraq. Which specifically means they are not coming to US home soil. While al-Qaida will continue to attack Americans, it will be Iraqi civilians who shed blood, who have to clean up after every car bomb. Not Americans.
It amazes me that it didn't occur to me earlier, that this (among other things of course) must have been what the neocons intended all along when they planned the invasion of Iraq just hours after the Sept. 11 attacks.
It is the perogative of Empire to choose the battlefield... and this battlefield always winds up being outside the homeland.
I realized with a chill what he really meant. Terrorists and other shady characters from all over the Middle East are converging on Iraq to take pot shots at the troops, relief aid workers, UN workers, and Halliburton contractors.
They're converging on Iraq. Which specifically means they are not coming to US home soil. While al-Qaida will continue to attack Americans, it will be Iraqi civilians who shed blood, who have to clean up after every car bomb. Not Americans.
It amazes me that it didn't occur to me earlier, that this (among other things of course) must have been what the neocons intended all along when they planned the invasion of Iraq just hours after the Sept. 11 attacks.
It is the perogative of Empire to choose the battlefield... and this battlefield always winds up being outside the homeland.
