Do you feel safer already?

So has anyone noticed how long its taking to reinvade one small city in Iraq? Fallujah is about 9 square miles, whereas Iraq is over 171,000 square miles. The population of Fallujah, as best we know, is about 300,000 (less than say Oakland, California) compared to a total of 22 million in Iraq. 10,000 troops thrown at it and goodness knows how much military firepower and its still taking days just to get some semblance of control over it.

Does that instill you with any confidence that 150,000 troops could bring peace to the entire country - that's more than 10,000 times the land, and 100 times the number of people? Could it be, that perhaps the great pacifier of freedom haters, GWB is about to re-flop (as opposed to flip-flop) as he did in Afghanistan. The only problem this time is that the whole world is watching. The whole world wants Bush to fail this time whereas the result of invading Afghanistan could be quietly forgotten about^*.

Now think about the difficulty of eradicating all those terrorists using an intense and concentrated effort by Americas finest freedom fighters. What hope does that give you that America could ever "win" a "war on terror"? As I've said before, such a thing is clearly futile. Even in an overly pacified country like the USA terrorists still pop up from time to time do their biding against the country. Shouldn't Bush be being a bit more rigorous about what he means by winning this war on terror? Is he really going to kill every single person that would raise arms against the US given a chance? Is he going to get 90% of them? Or maybe 50%? Or perhaps 10%? Yes, like a school boy out stomping on ants, our commander-in-chief really must be asking himself, just how many of these terrorists do I have to kill before people can be convinced I've killed them all, or enough?

I mean, just what is Bush thinking about... is he going to kill enough of those pesky meddling terrorists to make a decent pile of bodies. Then he can declare the war on terror won - mission re-accomplished - and have a nice ticker tape parade down Fifth Avenue to celebrate the end of terrorism. Is that the way he thinks its going to be? Because if he doesn't then he should remember, that's the way he basically sold it this election. Vote for me - I'll end terror so you can sleep safe at night again.

Bush should come clean - the war on terror can never be won. The war on terror is a misnomer, a fiction, a figment of a deranged mindset that believes the only way to bring peace is with war. It bugged me no end that Kerry got on this bandwagon too and started ranting about the war on terror and hunting down and killing Osama like it was some turkey shoot. Sure Osama claims responsibility for at least three thousand US lives and he should get about the same treatment as any other mass murderer or war criminal would get. But you know someone in the US government really doesn't want him taken alive and you all should know why that is by now.

If Kerry had been smarter and bolder, more like a true leader than "the other white meat", he would have pointed out the fallacy of Bush's war on terror, what a huge waste of human life, money and time it has been and how it has done nothing to make us safer yet and probably never will. He should have pointed out the moral bankruptcy of invading a country in the way that Bush did, and of waging a war against people just because they hate you.

But alas Kerry didn't do anything of the sort, he jumped right on the fear-factory band wagon and got right into the grove with his message of "I'm going to make you safer than the other guy buy winning wars and killing terrorists more effectively than Bush". Great, that's like telling the school he'll fix the problem of bullying by teaching the bully to fight more effectively so no one will stand up against him - only the bully isn't terrorists, its US - Team F**king America.

In my dreams he might have said something like "I'm going to keep my armies at home defending my country at home until someone attacks me, and I'm going to figure out what it is that the USA is doing to make everyone hate us more than any other country in the world". Unfortunately Kerry wasn't about to make a bold stand on anything, least of all something involving less force in Iraq, less war on terror and less gung-ho aggression by the USA. Which is why the ill-defined flip-flopper label stuck and the un-Bush label didn't, and that's why we have to face four more years of death and destruction targeted by and at America which will make no one any safer than they are today.

^* Until that is the Taliban take control again and remind everyone that the pacification of Afghanistan amounted to little more than a invasion of Kabul, a quick foray into the hills and then the resumption of rule by warring factions hell bent on churning out as much opium as possible.