City Newspaper Archives - 2/2007
BUSH: Our costly anti-terrorism tactics
Published on Feb 06, 2007
BUSH: Our costly anti-terrorism tactics
In his excellent interview of John Mueller, Ron Netsky referred to the Bush administration's claims of preventing another 9/11 with security measures as "kind of a chicken-and-egg issue."
Keeping the elephants away seems more apt, as in the old story:
A man is walking through the jungle, whistling to himself. One of his colleagues asks him why he's whistling and he replies, "to scare aware the elephants." His colleague laughs and says, "Surely you don't believe that works." The man says, "You don't see any elephants, do you?"
George W. Bush's whistling to keep the terrorists out of the US has consisted of spending billions of our dollars on questionable security measures. At the same time, he has used up nearly a trillion to fight his "war" in Iraq. Meanwhile, the thousands of American service men and women he has sent to Iraq provide convenient targets for terrorists right there in the Arab world.
Byrna Weir, Brighton
