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February 07, 2010

The War War War War War on Terror
Posted by David Shorr

It's obvious that the administration doesn't take the terrorist threat seriously. Know how we can tell? Well, they refuse to outfit commercial airliners with air-to-air missiles and put armed commandos on board. They don't have military checkpoints at our international airports and border crossings. Oh, and what's the hold-up on invading Yemen, by the way? We hear a lot about Britain's homegrown and immigrant terrorists, yet Obama keeps stubbornly refusing to insert the 82nd Airborne into London. Doesn't he realize we're at war? And if he realized these terrorists mean to do us harm, he'd use the word war a lot more. "War war war war war war allworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboy war war war war war." See? Now I'M someone who takes terrorism seriously.

Okay, maybe all that is a slight exaggeration. But hyperbolic irony aside, isn't this the unexamined assumption underlying the whole law-enforcement-versus-war debate? Look back over the last several weeks, don't you feel like the war-fighting approach has gotten a free ride in terms of its proponents not being asked how it really works? Boy, talk about sound and fury. Hopefully the pendulum will swing the other way. After all, the American public did figure out that the Iraq War was creating more terrorists than it was stopping.

[See Richard Clarke to expose what the Republicans are really up to.]

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very well written post.I would say Richard Clarke talking about partisanship is like the late Air America or MSNBC talking about partisanship. This was a fringe left-wing article which makes Ann Coulter seem like a centrist....

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