The Boomerang of Time
Republicans appear to believe in a causality that runs backward in time. Before the American invasion there was no al-Qaeda presence in Iraq at all. After it, there was. Rather than admit that the invasion itself created the al-Qaeda presence in Iraq, therefore, they claimed that the invasion was motivated by its own consequences. That is, they invaded Iraq to deal with a problem that did not then exist, but would be created by the invasion itself. It would seem to follow that either the Republicans have a shaky grasp of the concept of temporal causation, or else they fully intended to create the Iraqi jihad all along, so as to further justify the domestic measures that are arguably the real purpose of the ‘war on terror’. It is hard to say which is the more terrifying prospect.
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And along the same lines: It is a pity that the Allies don’t listen more to those maverick analysts who point out that the primary reason for vehement acts of violence and terrorism by the Taliban & others, is the presence of Allied troops…
…and perhaps the multinational corporations interested in minerals, opium and other natural resources.
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