The KSHB Chronicles
On 7 September 2008, I am to speak to KSHB TV in Kansas City about several issues.
They tell me that they want to know my energy policy, whether I believe in Global Warming, What can be done about Gasoline Prices, When I think American Troops should come home from Iraq, Where the Next Front should be in the War on Terror, Who is responsible for the mortgage crisis, and What I would do to increase jobs.
WASHINGTON; THE NEXT FRONT IN THE WAR ON TERROR
It is time to inject some truth and plain speaking into this “War on Terror” business. Wars are fought between nation states, or at least between princes (big thugs). Al Quaeda is not a country, a warlord, a prince/thug or anything else that does not fit the bill of gangster and pirate. We are not engaged in a “War on Terror”.
Saddam Hussein and the Iraq war were not a part of any “War on Terror”. Saddam convinced everyone he had wepons of mass destruction. Being the kind of a guy who shoved folks into wood chippers for fun, and murdered babies for practice, the world became understandably nervous at the idea of Saddam with such weapons. Saddam ran his bluff as long as he could and got hung for it.
The fighting in Afganistan against the Taliban was a reprisal against harborers of the Al Quaeda gang. The Taliban was a deplorable bunch but they posed no threat to the industrial world outside providing the gangsters a safe haven. The Taliban is gone. I talked to a former seal last night who served there and he said we were only there to make the politicians happy.
Now we are engaged in a fight with a well armed, well trained gang. It is no different than dealing with the Mafia, or the Colombian Drug Cartel. Well armed and well trained gangs one and all. I read this morning that the Colombian Drug Cartel purchased US military helicopters from Israel. They are closer to us, and better armed than Al Quaeda. They prey upon our cities and have caused more violence in our cities than Al Quaeda has ever done.
Drive by shootings, drug related street crime, murders, bombings can all be laid to their door step.
Even so, there is no hysteria to have national identity papers, internal check points, bank reporting of our business, snoop searches, uncharged imprisonment off shore, an end to habeas corpus or other impositions on our civil rights because of the Colombian Drug Cartels. But take a bunch of half educated Muslims, give then some IED’s, some pipe bombs, some RPG’s and a few hundred AK47’s and Washington goes crazy and wants FISA Courts.
We do not have 150,000 men chasing the drug cartel out of Colombia, and never did.
So, I think the next front in the “War on Terror” should be the front to bring some perspective to this so called “War on Terror”, and to review and roll back every authoritarian portion of the patriot act that has supported government secrecy, including warrantless searches and secret courts.
