A.K.A Cutting off the Terrorist’s Money
On the same day that the death toll of our troops has reached 4000 in Iraq, the Los Angeles Times reports that the United States is having trouble cutting off terrorist funding partially due to inter-agency fighting and mistrust among coalition members. (Terrorism Money Still Flowing by Josh Meyer. Monday, March 24, 2008)
The inter-agency war in Washington aside, we should take a look at that possible sources of mistrust as that is probably the most influential factor in cutting off the money and thus winning the war on terror and the war in Iraq both, since terrorists have run their in droves to kill our soldier.
Mistrust in coalition members might consist of:
= the misinterpretation of intelligence that was really the enhancing and spinning of intelligence
= the failure to admit fault in any real way for beginning the war in Iraq for unsound reasons
= refusing to explain how some sources of information were ever found credible (before they were spun)
Telling our allies they can go jump in the river if they don’t want to join us in "blasting Iraq back into the stone age" for a second time, probably didn’t do much to make them want to stay by our side for the long haul--even if after the got over the initial slap in the face they got at the United Nations in 2002 and 2003.
The Bush administration’s arrogance has had it’s price---the better part of the four thousand American lives and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives that have been lost in Iraq to be specific.
