I was wondering what any of you think about the possibility that the real reason we invaded Iraq is so that it would attract all the terrorists into one place. Let me explain:
If you think back to right after 9/11 everyone (liberals, conservatives, FBI, CIA, intellectuals, and every other kind of expert) was saying that more and more terrorists would be getting into America and causing more problems. It was predicted that every major US city would face car bombs and suicide bombers on buses just like in Israel.
Keep in mind that this was before the Patriot Act, before the Department of Homeland Security and all the other reforms that have taken place so the Bush Administration had to realize how vulnerabe we would be.
So since we felt unprotected for this new threat at home in the US, wouldn't it make sense to cause a distraction in another part of the world so that the US would have time to figure out how to protect the homeland? For example, imagine you are unarmed and a pack of wild dogs are running towards you. Instead of trying to fight them, the smart thing to do would be to take a piece of meat or something else to distract them with and throw it as far away from you as possible. Then you have time to arm yourself or think of a defense.
Once we invaded Iraq it caught the attention of all the terrorists in Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc. If any of these terrorists had intentions on trying to get into the US to cause harm it would now make sense to them to just go to Iraq, which is a lot closer and easier to get into. A lot of these terrorists feel that it is a bigger trophy to kill a US soldier in Iraq than a civilian on American soil. Plus they know that the media of the entire world is focused on the Iraq war.
I'm not saying that the reasons Bush said we went to war (i.e. weapons of mass destruction, taking out Saddam, etc.) weren't also legit reasons we did it, but wouldn't this "terrorist magnet" theory as I call it also make sense? It's been 3 1/2 years since 9/11 and there hasn't been any major attack on US soil. Nobody can really explain why this is. It has to be more than just good police work. I really believe it is because the terrorists have all been diverted to Iraq and this has saved us in the US.
This is why I don't think the soldiers' lives in Iraq are being wasted, even if Iraq never becomes a stable state. If these terrorists were right here in the US and we lost 1500 soldiers trying to fight them off I don't think anyone would say that this was a waste.
If you think back to right after 9/11 everyone (liberals, conservatives, FBI, CIA, intellectuals, and every other kind of expert) was saying that more and more terrorists would be getting into America and causing more problems. It was predicted that every major US city would face car bombs and suicide bombers on buses just like in Israel.
Keep in mind that this was before the Patriot Act, before the Department of Homeland Security and all the other reforms that have taken place so the Bush Administration had to realize how vulnerabe we would be.
So since we felt unprotected for this new threat at home in the US, wouldn't it make sense to cause a distraction in another part of the world so that the US would have time to figure out how to protect the homeland? For example, imagine you are unarmed and a pack of wild dogs are running towards you. Instead of trying to fight them, the smart thing to do would be to take a piece of meat or something else to distract them with and throw it as far away from you as possible. Then you have time to arm yourself or think of a defense.
Once we invaded Iraq it caught the attention of all the terrorists in Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, etc. If any of these terrorists had intentions on trying to get into the US to cause harm it would now make sense to them to just go to Iraq, which is a lot closer and easier to get into. A lot of these terrorists feel that it is a bigger trophy to kill a US soldier in Iraq than a civilian on American soil. Plus they know that the media of the entire world is focused on the Iraq war.
I'm not saying that the reasons Bush said we went to war (i.e. weapons of mass destruction, taking out Saddam, etc.) weren't also legit reasons we did it, but wouldn't this "terrorist magnet" theory as I call it also make sense? It's been 3 1/2 years since 9/11 and there hasn't been any major attack on US soil. Nobody can really explain why this is. It has to be more than just good police work. I really believe it is because the terrorists have all been diverted to Iraq and this has saved us in the US.
This is why I don't think the soldiers' lives in Iraq are being wasted, even if Iraq never becomes a stable state. If these terrorists were right here in the US and we lost 1500 soldiers trying to fight them off I don't think anyone would say that this was a waste.
