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October 18, 2005
The Global War on Terror, Iraq and WMD
Did we forget the Global War on Terror, that everyone was so gung ho about immediately after 9/11? Where is that support now? Do we no longer see the forest through the trees? The Administration has badly managed the war, no question. However, very little of our invasion had to do with WMD, and it had everything to do with the Global War on Terror. Watch the video as I explain why it was a means to pressure the Saudis to crack down on extremists within Saudi Arabia, it was a way to get the Iranians to dismantle their nuclear weapons program and drop their support of other terrorist organizations like Hezzbollah and Hamas. It was also a way to tell Syria and Libya to shape up and a way to signal to the fundamentalists that the U.S. was not going to act passively and wait while they continually attacked us. The reasons are more varied and numerous than those, but that is a start. We are not thinking about the bigger picture here and I think that is a mistake.
Posted by Chip Spear at October 18, 2005 3:49 PM
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