Still searching for a title…
Someone needs to get Pat Buchannan to a doctor. He's showing leftist tendencies. Maybe he should be sent to a Republican Conversion Camp to cure him of this disorder.
The 9-11 terrorists were over here because we were over there. They are not trying to convert us. They are killing us to drive us out of their countries.
Before the U.S. invasion, says [Robert Pape, author of "Dying to Win: The Logic of Suicide Terrorism], "Iraq never had a suicide attack in its history. Since our invasion, suicide terrorism has been escalating rapidly, with 20 attacks in 2003, 48 in 2004 and over 50 in just the first five months of 2005.
Every year since the U.S. invasion, suicide terrorism has doubled. ... Far from making us safer against terrorism, the operation in Iraq has stimulated suicide terrorists and has given suicide terrorism a new lease on life."
Pape is saying that President Bush has got it backward: The Iraq war is not eradicating terrorism, it is creating terrorists.
That seems a bit to me like saying the king wouldn't suppress the peasants if they would stop revolting. Or the husband would stop beating his wife if she would stop giving him lip. If the Iraqi's would just stop trying to establish a democratic society and submit to repression by fascist Muslim clerics, they wouldn't have to be blown up anymore.
No one ever said the terrorists were trying to convert us. Their mandate is to kill infidels. I can see how one would get kill and convert confused. They do both start with the same hard consonant.