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I graduated from Drew University with an MFA in Poetry and from McNeese State University with an MA in English Literature. I also have a Bachelor of General Studies with a minor in Psychology and a BA in Sociology from McNeese. Currently, I'm working on a doctorate in English with a concentration in composition-rhetoric at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Monday, December 19, 2005

Fight Terror; Don't Pretend

Text of Bush speech on Iraq war
The Associated Press

"This is not the threat I see. I see a global terrorist movement that exploits Islam in the service of radical political aims — a vision in which books are burned, and women are oppressed, and all dissent is crushed. Terrorist operatives conduct their campaign of murder with a set of declared and specific goals — to demoralize free nations to drive us out of the Middle East to spread an empire of fear across that region and to wage a perpetual war against America and our friends. These terrorists view the world as a giant battlefield and they seek to attack us wherever they can. This has attracted al-Qaida to Iraq, where they are attempting to frighten and intimidate America into a policy of retreat."

First, who is endorsing "a policy of retreat"? There is not a person in Congress or otherwise who does. Next, while the President's vision of a terrorist utopia is truly frightening, it is equally as frightening that we are spending $6 billion a month dodging IED's and fighting battles over and over again in the same cities, essentially spinning our wheels and not accomplishing the right goals. If the right goal is fighting terror, then specialized troops must accomplish this and not the national guard troops that comprise 40% of the US fighting force in Iraq. We have been far too distracted with fighting "Saddamists" and "Foreign Fighters" far too long and not focused enough on annihilating terror in Iraq. Finally, terrorists were not in Iraq until we invaded Iraq and would have engaged us whenever and wherever we chose to send our conventional troops. While the world may be a battlefield against terror, it is the covert operation that will defeat terrorism; not squandered funds and resources like what is happening in Iraq. Consequently, fight terror in Iraq if that is our mission, but don't pretend as if that is what we are doing.

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