Wingnuts, even our local wingnuts, have argued that the United States needs to “eliminate terrorist threats abroad, so we do not have to face them here at home.”
Mike Castle has delivered a form of that bullshit, and his buddy John Boehner said terrorists would blow up Loockerman street in Dover if we leave Iraq. Now we get what they really mean when they say that:
Last night on Hannity and Colmes, right-wing pundit Dick Morris also claimed that we need to keep U.S. troops in Iraq so that terrorists don’t come to the United States. But he argued that we need to put “Americans right within their [terrorists’] arms’ reach” so that they have the opportunity to “kill Americans” there. He added that therefore, “they don’t have to come to Wall Street to kill Americans. They don’t have to knock down the Trade Center. They can do it around the corner, and convenience is a big factor when you’re a terrorist.”
Watch it at Think Progress.