The conservative arguments soundly trash the left's theory that Islamic terrorists thrive because of Iraq. The threat has been gestating for a long time. Iraq is not the cause, but is an opportunity for them to die.
"The realization of the price of inaction through the '90s has a huge political cost attached to it, one that the Democrats will bear if a full accounting is ever compiled. Thus the 'breeding ground' rhetoric--empty and absurd as it is--is a convenient and even necessary bit of smoke. There's no fire underneath that smoke. Just a desperate hope that noise will drown out voices pointing to the real history of the rise of the Islamist threat.
In an exchange with Ron Reagan on MSNBC this week, Christopher Hitchens sharply rebuked the 'motive' school of terrorist psychologists: 'I thought I heard you making just before we came on the air, of attributing rationality or a motive to this, and to say that it's about anything but itself, you make a great mistake, and you end up where you ended up, saying that the cause of terrorism is fighting against it, the root cause, I mean.' [emphasis added]
Hitchens's point, which must be made again and again, is Blair's point: The killers are killers because they want to kill, not because the coalition invaded Iraq, or Afghanistan, or because there are bases in Saudi Arabia, or because
Israel will not retreat to the 1967 borders.
Until and unless the left gets this point, and abandons the idea that 'breeding' of terrorists is something the West triggers, they cannot be trusted with the conduct of the war. "
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