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If this is true, it means we have gone off the deep end in fighting terrorism. Fussing over Iraq to potentially inspire democracy, while we slowly push back the boundaries of democracy here at home, while not eradicating the very terrorism leaders we are at war with? And the (strange) rational being diplomacy to try and get the French to support going into Iraq? How about the diplomatic components of the Iraq action itself? (Update: It also seems, prompting his earlier release, that we may not have properly identified al-Zarqawi to Iraq, which was supposed to be helping us fight terrorism. As of June 8, 2006, Zarqawi was finally killed in an air raid.)

Recently the following question was posed; "in focusing on Iraq, have we lost sight of the larger war on terror?" It seems that the answer has not only been yes for quite some time, but that in doing so, we have lost our minds. Journalists (see posts below) want to cowardly support a government spying on its own citizens, while we purposefully chose not to capture or eliminate the most egregious of the terrorism leaders that we are at war with? The claim is either outlandishly inaccurate, or ought to trouble every American.

The truth may well be that it was not so clear cut, and that these considerations entered into our deliberations. But we need to refocus on what our priorities need to be. For an administration and a country so blithely unconcerned with the increasing negative perception of us by the world, to nevertheless forego an opportunity to directly eradicate our unequivocal terrorism foes, even in partial consideration of such perception (which is a ridiculous claim in this regard), is bizarre. Comment

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