Losing the war on Terror
Many people and bloggers got overexcited by State Department figures released in May showing global terrorists attacks fell to their lowest levels for 20 years.Sadly as Kevin Drum notes today, they forgot the first thing most of us have learnt about things told by the Bush Adminstration, it's probably a lie. In fact it seems that terrorists attacks might be at their highest for 20 years. This comes after 20 years of (by and large) falls in their number.
If this report turns out to be true (and of course we met yet learn that the figures are actually an invention of the Iranian secret service) it doesn't bode well for the war on terror. Furthermore one fears that this is an inevitable consequence of George Bush's decision to transfer money, resources, military power and administrative time from the war on terror to invading Iraq. The November election has never seemed more crucial.
posted by Matthew @ 6/09/2004 07:43:00 PM
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