Teach Me About Bush
What is George W. Bush's long-term strategic plan to end transnational terrorism? If you know, please e-mail me…because I'd like to know too. Seriously. I understand that an entirely defensive posture isn't good enough, but I’m not convinced that simply going after the "bad guys" (via preemption or otherwise) is enough either. In fact, my support for a new foreign policy team is based entirely on this premise. Since transnational terrorism is, in a sense, feedback from the most distressed and disconnected regions on earth, it is incumbent upon on all functional nation-states to participate in the application of a strong and coherent long-term policy geared toward connecting those regions to the rest of the world. In this sense, it's not the "preemption" part of Bush's approach that's the most troublesome – it's the "go-it-alone" part. Unless the goal is to just "get the bad guys"; in which case the policy itself is the most troublesome part. Also, since the defeat of terrorism is a long-term priority, it makes sense to me to adopt a political strategy that can be championed by a series of Administrations (Democrat & Republican alike); what is on the table now doesn't meet that standard. But I'm just making stuff up, because I honestly have no idea what Bush's long-term strategy is.
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Not to mention that we don't negotiate with terrorists. The part of that statement that goes unnoticed is "we don't give a fuck about your cause." We don't care about your religion or how the Israelis are always fucking you over or how economically depressed your people are -- you're terrorists and you're evil. The lack of negotiation only makes the problem worse. Sure, there's plenty of "kill the infidels" zealots out there -- looks like we have plenty here, too. Is that a pie-in-the-sky, pussy liberal thing to say, that if we just listened to each other, maybe we could work something out? Even if it is, at least we'd be trying something that might work as opposed something that will make thing worse.
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