Like Beating Up a Kid, Then Offering Him an Ice Cream

Many of the bigger bloggers have noted the irony in the "flypaper" strategy re: Iraq, a strategery proffered as recently as Saturday during Dubya's radio address:

Some may disagree with my decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power, but all of us can agree that the world's terrorists have now made Iraq a central front in the war on terror. These foreign terrorists violently oppose the rise of a free and democratic Iraq, because they know that when we replace despair and hatred with liberty and hope, they lose their recruiting grounds for terror.

Our troops are fighting these terrorists in Iraq so you will not have to face them here at home blah blah blah, etc. etc. ad nauseous.

Hmmm. So, on the one hand, we want to help the Iraqis, but on the other, we're hoping that despicable, ruthless murderers show up there and wreck havok with the place (and the people living there) so we can kill them...

By the way, the whole "kill them" strategery isn't exactly working out--unless you think daily suicude bombings, car bombings, truck bombings...you get the point...are "successes." Oh, and I don't recall any consideration given to the wishes of Iraqi citizens when it was decided that THEY would be at the front line of the GWOT. Democracy? Well, I guess every democracy has its limits.

As does every occupation.