Flypaper Strategy -- what did you expect?
So Bush Admnistration negligence has allowed vast quantities of high explosive to be looted from a site in Iraq, potentially arming thousands of murderous terrorists. And people are surprised?We all know now that the main rationale for the Iraq war, at least if you read right-wing American blogs, is the 'flypaper strategy'. Essentially the argument is that it is safer for Americans if the US fights terrorists in the area of their choosing, with the forces of its choosing and that area was Iraq, not Iowa, and those forces were the US Army not the Firefighters.
Now how do you expect such a strategy to work if you don't give the terrorists weapons? They're hardly going to come out and fight unarmed! In other words this is another stroke of Bush genius, the bait so the flypaper works. An October surprise indeed.
posted by Matthew @ 10/26/2004 07:28:00 PM
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