Who is Benefiting from Bush’s War on Terror?

From the beginning, the American citizenry understood that the War on Terror involved more than simply finding and bringing to justice those who had planned and executed the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. However, at that time we were told that American’s strategy involved destroying the larger al-Quida network, chasing down and capturing Usama Bin Laden, and confronting the radical ideology that inspired others to join or support the terrorist movement. Since that time, we have broken old orthodoxies that confined our counter terrorism efforts to the criminal justice domain and according to official propaganda have managed to combat terrorism by incorporating a better understanding of the enemy and have as a result made substantial progress in degrading the al-Quida network and disrupting several of its existing lines of support.  

However, this writer must wonder why more pressure has not been placed on the Bin Laden family to assist our government in capturing Usama and why it is that many of the supposedly averted attacks were discovered and averted due to the efforts of other countries. Could it possibly be that our current administration and its political supporters are in cahoots’ with the Saudi’s due to prior financial and social affinities? Is it the “Wag the Dog” response of lets divert attention away from the president and his follies by keeping the American people afraid of another attack so that the powers that be can continue to act in their own best interests and irresponsibly seek their own goals? Is that why we as a supposedly Christian nature are expected to accept the violence against Muslim innocents as justified? I suggest we look at the real reasons behind the hideous war that has been undertaken in the
Middle East and question the motives of the political and military leaders who caused it. One only has to look at the young men and women of our military who have suffered loss of life, severe injury, and mental breakdowns to see that Iraq is a war, similar to
Viet Nam, that there is no chance of winning in the end, only death and destruction to many. [tags]War on Terror, American Strategy, War benefits, Middle Eastern war, Usama Bin Laden, Wag the Dog, al-Quida, [/tags]