Kicking a Hornet’s Nest
Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
Robert C. Martin, an author and software engineering guru, has kicked a hornet’s nest with his posting entitled Terrorist Trap. In the posting, he posits that the war in Iraq is a trap to attract terroists away from the U.S. and to eliminate them. One of the many rebutals is that this has actually created more terrorists citing an article by a PhD. at Stanford about the situation molding a man.
I don’t know if the war in Iraq was meant as a trap for terrorist, but I do believe that Sadam Hussein sponsored terrorist and was creating or seeking to create Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) which he would have used on his neighbors and/or sold to terrorist groups. I hear the Left screaming, “The 911 commission said Hussein wasn’t involved!” True, it also said that he was involved in other terrorist activities. Officials in his government met with leaders of Al Qaeda. He gave money to Palestinian homicide bombers. Also the 911 commission is another beauracratic farce. They didn’t call a group to testify that identified the 9/11 leader a year before the incident. Then the Left screams, “But there were no WMDs!” Well, he did gas Kurds in 1989. And artillery was found with nerve gas. Was Iraq an “eminent threat?” Yes! Eminent means outstanding or high ranking, not immediate as many on the Left seem to define it.
As for the notion that by going to Iraq the U.S. has created terrorists, I wouldn’t doubt that there are a few people who became terrorists because of U.S. actions but that’s hardly a justification for not going. Those few people who turn into threats are outweighed by an entire nation that is becoming a democracy in a region sorely in need of an example of what prosperity a democracy can bring. Further, saying that fighting terrorsim breeds terrorism so we shouldn’t do it is like saying police shouldn’t fight crime because average people will get mad at the police and become criminals.
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