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What Happened to the War on Terrorism?
What do Iraq's hidden "weapons of mass destruction," however terrible, have to do with a score of terrorists armed only with box-cutters? Nothing.

The purpose of the 1991 Gulf War was to restore the status quo when Iraq seized Kuwait. Gulf War II has no such pretext. The American people aren't in the mood for yet another war. So the trick was to convert the shock of 9/11 into war fever, then to redirect it at Iraq by "linking" Saddam Hussein to "terrorism." This required some slippery semantics and a lot of propaganda -- which is mostly sheer repetition of nonsense until resistance is worn down, and logic surrenders.

But whoever controls the Arab world controls everyone's access to oil. If the United States conquers Iraq, then Iran, it will gain enormous leverage over the whole industrialized world -- including a little country that has been largely ignored during the recent discussions: China.

posted by Hal 7:04 PM