We are safer
Suicide The large number of attacks — more than double the number in any of the past 25 years — reflects a trend that has surprised and worried U.S. intelligence and military analysts.
More than four-fifths of the suicide bombings over that period have occurred in the past seven years, the data show. The bombings have spread to dozens of countries on five continents, killed more than 21,350 people and injured about 50,000 since 1983, when a landmark attack blew up the U.S. Embassy in Beirut
Tags: 9/11, Bush's FUBAR War, The War of Terror
I have always said that the problem here is that we are creating terrorists faster than we are killing them. It is a concept that right-wingers don’t seem to grasp.
“You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.”
– Ho Chi Minh
Actually, Geek, I’m beginning to think it’s a concept they embrace. TERROR is the problem! Look, there are more TERRORISTS!
Kinda like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Exactly like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Perhaps you are right about some, but just your run-of-the-mill “George Bush is the best president ever” sort of right-winger just thinks that the only way to teach them A-rabs some respect is to bomb them to hell.
I suspect the same people beat their children with regularity because it was good enough for them when they were growing up.
Kinda like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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I have been saying something similar for a long time…more like it was Rove’s best chance to keep GOPers in power under the National Security meme. Now I figure it is equally in the payoffs to war profiteers which equates to payoff of GOP coffers and stockholders of all stripes.
To Quote the Senile Old man ” I tell you my friends the surge is working”
This in spite of the fact that we have had 30 of our troops killed in Iraq so far this month. 19 of them from the 6th of April to the10th of April a period in which the General was telling congress that all was well in Iraq