Dangerously counterproductive war on terror
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
04/21/08
At the passing of the 25th anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon — the first large suicide bombing to target Americans — the time is right to ask the perennial question: has the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror’ since 9/11 made Americans safer? Although the Bush administration regularly boasts that its war on terror has been effective because no large terrorists attacks on U.S. soil have occurred since 9/11, such terrorism in North America has historically been a rare event. It’s like bragging that efforts to prevent lightning strikes have succeeded because a dwelling has not been struck or burned...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2175
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
by Ivan Eland
04/21/08
At the passing of the 25th anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon — the first large suicide bombing to target Americans — the time is right to ask the perennial question: has the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror’ since 9/11 made Americans safer? Although the Bush administration regularly boasts that its war on terror has been effective because no large terrorists attacks on U.S. soil have occurred since 9/11, such terrorism in North America has historically been a rare event. It’s like bragging that efforts to prevent lightning strikes have succeeded because a dwelling has not been struck or burned...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2175
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
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