Dumber than K-LO?
Cornerite Charlotte Hays siezes upon a variant of the flypaper theory, as if it were some kind of brilliant new insight instead of a pathetic and long-discredited excuse.
Even Rudyard Kipling thought Afghanistan was a hellish place to fight. So why is Obama itching to fight al-Qaeda there rather than Iraq? Yes, we did draw the bloody monsters to Iraq, but, as it turns out, it was a better place to fight them. But the Left dogmatically insists that it is better to confront al-Qaeda in Afghanistan’s fastness, a terrain that gives al-Qaeda a huge advantage. Such is their antipathy to George Bush and (as is now more certain than ever after Obama’s Berlin rally) the use of American power.
It’s not antipathy to Bush as this simpleton suggests, but rather the fact that our presence in Iraq has enabled al Qaeda to recruit more and different sources and recruit native Iraqis to fight in Iraq without impairing in the slightest their ability to recruit from their untouched bases in Afghanistan. Iraq is more accessible than Afghanistan or Waziristan to potential jihadist recruits, and as our national intelligence estimates stated, the occupation of Iraq has provided al Qaeda affiliated groups with a cause and motivation for jihadist recruits. A larger recruiting bases and more fodder for al Qaeda recruiters is not a good thing.
An analogy would be a patient with an infected lung deliberately causing another infection in his arm, so he could fight the infection there since it is, after all, easier to reach. Just like Iraq.
Remember the old joke about the drunk & the lost keys?
It’s more appropriate to this debacle:
A drunk is staggering around the gutter, when another man walks up to him.
“Is everything OK,” the man asks the drunk.
“Yea, but maybe you could give me a hand finding my keysh.”
“Where’d you lose them?”
“Across the shtreet.”
“Why are you looking over here?”
“Cuz the light’sh better.”
[...] Charlotte Hays, last seen here two days ago, striving for absolute stupid, comes a little closer to her goal today. Brushing off [...]