The Unwinnable War on Terror?

The media sing in unanimity that the “distracted” Bush Administration can’t beat the terrorists. Meanwhile, in the space of a year, Libya has gone from honorable mention for the Axis of Evil to quasi-ally (though still mostly despicable), actually catching key remnants of a vicious al-Qaeda linked terrorist group from Algeria. Remember the Millenium Bomb plot? The would be bomber came from Algeria’s radical Islamic insurgency. A few years ago, those groups were poised to make Algeria the next Afghanistan. Now, they are on the verge of annihilation.

Qaddafy admitted to Italian President Silvio Berlusconi that he started secret negotiations with the U.S. and Britain to disarm after the Iraq War scared him witless. Information we obtained in Iraq helped us crack the A.Q. Khan network in Pakistan, which also helped us build cases against Libya, Iran, and North Korea. So how is Iraq a distraction from the War on Terror?

You could always say that those 130,000 troops should wade into Afghanistan, but didn’t the Soviets try that one already?