Losing the War on Terror
by David Wiggins
There you have it. There is no longer any doubt
whether the Bush administration's actions are
having an impact on terrorist activity. They
are having a definite impact. They are
increasing terror. Bottom line: No one truck
bombed the UN compound in Iraq when Saddam
Hussein was in charge.
We have Jordanian Embassy bombings, oil and
water pipeline explosions, SAM missile potshots
at airliners in Kenya and SAM missile salesmen
in the USA, attacks on peacekeepers in
Afghanistan, suicide bombings in Israel, Bali,
and Saudi Arabia, a rejuvenated Taliban, a
nuclear North Korea, a nuclear Iran, Osama bin
Laden on the loose, Saddam Hussein on the
loose, and the USA in 4th place on the world
terror hit list.
What is Bush's response to all of this? Losing
is winning. You see, the more it looks like we
are losing - bombs and explosions, incinerated
Humvees, dead soldiers and civilians, debt,
deficit, drugs, etc., the more we are actually
winning. It's all very simple to Dubya. Getting
our asses kicked is a sign of progress. It is a
sign of "desperation" on the part of the "dead-
enders". On August 19th, referring to the attack
"Every sign of progress in Iraq adds to the
desperation of the terrorists and the remnants
of Saddam's brutal regime."
You know the dead-enders. They are the "give me
liberty or give me death" crowd. They have this
silly idea that if they keep using irregular
tactics against their occupiers, they might
actually defeat King George... uh, I mean...
President George Bush.
Bush and Blair lies to the contrary, it is now
clear that US and British intelligence services
as well as any other intelligence services they
cared to ask knew that Al-Qaeda had little or
no presence in Iraq before the US invasion.
Saddam Hussein made sure of that. He didn't
want any competition. The only Islamist group
in Iraq at all, Ansar-al-Islam, was confined to
a small remote corner of northern Iraq. Saddam
Hussein could not get at them there because the
area was under the protection of the United
States via its unsanctioned "Northern No Fly
Zone."
Now we see that the US invasion of Iraq is the
best thing that ever happened to Ansar-al-
Islam. Paul Bremer, the US civilian
administrator in Iraq, said there was, "clear
evidence of an Al-Qaeda-related terrorist
group, the Ansar al-Islam, reconstituting its
capabilities inside of Iraq since the war". The
group is now operating all over Iraq. It is
suspected in the bombing of the Jordanian
Embassy in Baghdad on august 7th. The Al-Qaeda
recruiters haven't had it so good since the
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A recently
released message to the Al-Qaeda troops exhorts
them to go to Iraq to kill Americans. But this
is all good news to the Bush Administration. It
just shows how desperate all those terrorists
are. "Bring them on!" says George. I'll bet the
UN personnel really appreciate that.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban seem very
desperate. In case no one noticed, those dead-
enders are making more comebacks than Freddy
Krueger. Last week witnessed the bloodiest week
in Afghanistan since the US invasion of that
country, with over 100 dead due to bus
bombings, rocket attacks, clashes with Taliban
militants, and between rival militias in
southern and southeastern Afghanistan.
Remember George Bush telling us that the drug
trade was a major source of financing for
terrorism? It is a sign of how desperate things
are in Afghanistan that the production of opium
for heroin is up to its highest levels ever.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called the
production of opium in Afghanistan a "whale of
a problem." The country now is the largest
opium producer in the world - and to think that
the Taliban had essentially eliminated opium
production in Afghanistan. Now that is
desperation! Given President Bush's losing is
winning philosophy; Afghanistan is a two-bagger
because there, we seem to be losing both the
"War on Terror" and the "War on Drugs." Opium
production is up in Colombia too.
Representative Henry Hyde states that opium
production in Colombia has revived. It
supplies, he stated, ''more than 60 percent of
U.S. heroin.'' George Bush, of course, would
say that all this just shows how desperate the
terrorists and opium producers are for money.
Osama Bin Laden must be very desperate. He
keeps sending out inspirational messages to his
mujahadeen. On August 18th he exhorted the
mujahadeen to go to Iraq to fight US forces. On
the 19th he claimed responsibility for the
largest blackout in US history. President Bush
says we'll "smoke him out". Osama must have an
incredible tolerance for smoke. We have been
"smoking" for almost two years now. Producing
all that smoke, no wonder the Bush
administration is opposed to the Global Warming
Treaty. But not only are we "smoking him out,"
we are "tightening the noose" around Osama's
neck. I wonder if there is a Guinness Book of
World Records entry for "world's largest noose"
or perhaps, "worlds slowest tightening noose."
George must be ecstatic about the desperation
shown by the terrorists on the home front.
According to the London-based World Markets
Research Center, the US is the 4th most likely
nation to experience a terrorist attack. Of 186
nations, we come in behind only Colombia,
Israel, and Pakistan. Remember the terror alert
system? You know the Crayola crayon color-coded
system any child could understand? Perhaps
Dubya could explain to my eight year old son
why the code has never dropped below yellow if
we are safer from terrorism than we were a year
ago. Little David keeps asking me that, but I
can't give him a convincing explanation.
Perhaps you could do it, Dubya, I mean you
being the "education President" and all that?
Why I even recall that no national crisis would
stop you from finishing your lesson with
elementary students.
Actually, this losing is winning philosophy
President Bush describes explains a lot to me.
Not only does it explain the "War on Terror"
and the "War on Drugs, " but it helps me
understand how the massive budget deficit is
good for our economy, how the massive trade
deficit is good for the future of our nation,
how the "Patriot Act" is good for my freedom,
how refusal to sign the "Global Warming Treaty"
is good for the environment, how developing new
nuclear weapons helps stop nuclear
proliferation, how government secrecy regarding
energy, 911, Iraq (mis)intelligence, etc., is
good for democracy, how....well, you get the
point. In fact, according to this philosophy,
George Bush must be the best president ever.
But, Helen Thomas already said that.
David Wiggins is a West Point (United States
Military Academy) distinguished graduate and an
honors graduate of New York Medical College. He
left the Army as a Conscientious Objector
resigning his commission as an Army Captain on
the Iraqi front lines during Operation Desert
Storm. He is currently an Emergency Physician.
Copyright 2003 LewRockwell.com
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