Comments on: War On Terror Important As Ever

National Review Online: Despite Critics' Ease, Islamic Terrorists Still Threaten The U.S.

[talkingham]

We already won the war in Iraq. Don't you neos remember Bush already decided that.

However, Bush and his crew of carpetbaggers like Wolfy who's now in trouble at the World Bank lost the peace.

So get it right. There is no end to this mess until one group of Iraqis trumps another amid the horrid squalor that we have visited upon these people in the name of Bush and his daddy.

We already won the war but lost the peace. Give it up, it's not worth hundreds of billions more or one more US soldier's life in my opinion.

Between dead and seriously wounded we are now approaching 30,000 casualties and the situation has only gotten worse because Bush and Rummy could not admit their failed small invasion force strategy was totally bogus to occupy a country the size of Iraq. I kinda think Bush planned on losing all along,just like he lost New Orleans.

[tejasdemo]

Enough already. There will always be terrorists. You can not get rid of them.

Enough with the terrorist BS all the *** time.

Somewhere today a child in the US is living in violence. Let's work on that for a change.

Jerks

[Razzl]

The first half of this contains a recitation of the facts that the country has arrived at but the neocons are not willing to acknowledge: that radical jihadism is really a small movement that got a lucky shot at us because we were inattentive but that has now mostly been cleaned up by police actions and doesn't require a permanent war footing to deal with. Al-Qaeda is effectively unable to recruit or organize now that states are monitoring their activities and arresting them. Americans aren't willing to permanently let go of our rights and liberties to shore up the overblown political program of a fringe of militarist academics.

If we accepted the neocon logic about the nature of this struggle then we would still be sending spies to neo-nazi rallies, tailing Russian emigrants assuming the resurgence of communist agitation, and infiltrating labor unions for crypto-wobblies. Every threat runs its course, deal with it.

And I can't resist pointing out by way of pricking Hanson's scatterbrained historical examples that while Nazi Germany didn't kill 3,000 Americans on our own soil, Tojo's Japan killed 2,800 at Pearl Harbor. That savage attack didn't seem to lead to a permanent struggle of civilizations that the neocon model says it should have...

[bluestardad]

The war in Iraq is not the War on Terror! No matter how many of these NEOCON RAGS preach this stuff it does not make it so.

[adventurepa]

The common item in this piece for you who missed it is religion.
This is why any and all religions are dangerous.

If an alien came down and attacked earth, the differences we have would disappear overnight. We all would unite. Because we would all be in danger.

And didn't inhale maybe you should inhale.
If you were paying attention you would be very upset about the way our government is doing things.

[talkingham]

Sure the so called war on terror is just as important as ever and just as laughable to Bush and his Saudi buddies. Curious how the interview tapes of the Saudi's he allowed to leave within hours 911 have "been lost." They were the only civilians allowed to fly and no telling what connections they had to 911. They were allowed to go scot free just like Bin Laden.

Bush and is Saudi buddies are laughing all the way to the oil bank. Between them and the Iraq war the price of gas has doubled during the last 6 years and shows no sign of ever retreating again be cause they know they can get away with it.

Bush has wrecked and lost the war on terror and wrecked the economy of anyone on a fixed income. I'm sure he really cares about the war on terror.

"Great job Brownie" after he allowed FEMA to allow New Orleans to be destroyed.

[shingles1]

Josh Marshall:

Democrats should just hit right back on how President Bush has been helping Osama bin Laden for almost six years. Sounds harsh. But it%u2019s true. Consider the facts. President Bush had bin Laden trapped in the mountains of Tora Bora. But he let bin Laden get away because Bush wanted to focus on Saddam Hussein instead. The president and the White House tried to lie about this during the 2004 election. But since then the evidence has become overwhelming. President Bush decided to let bin Laden get away so he could get ready to attack Saddam Hussein. So pretty much anything bin Laden does from here on out is on President Bush. And how about Iraq? President Bush has screwed things up so badly that he%u2019s created a whole new generation of recruits for bin Laden. He%u2019s created a whole new army for bin Laden. Not by being tough but by being stupid. And by being too much of a coward to admit his mistakes once it was obvious that the occupation of Iraq was helping bin Laden specifically and the jihadist agenda in general.

After half a decade, the verdict is pretty clear: President Bush has been the biggest ally Osama bin Laden has. He%u2019s helped bin Laden at pretty much every turn %u2014 even if only by his own stupidity, incompetence and cowardice. And when the next big terrorist attack comes, we can thank President Bush for helping make it happen.

[oleander8]

Of course the War on Terror is important. But that war was not in IRAQ. We should have concentrated on AFGHANISTAN and finished that war. The incursion into IRAQ just swelled the army of the terrorists, and cost the US prestige and support.