‘Fight Them Over There, Not Over Here”

Faced with the collapse of pretty much all of the original reasons for the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the ever-dwindling number of Iraq war supporters seems to have latched onto one final mantra: if the United States did not fight [name your enemy] in Iraq, they would be be forced to fight them in the United States. When I watched Max Blumenthal interview the college Republicans, this line was repeated in almost zombie-like tones.

Let’s think about this for a minute. Put aside the fact that it is a ludicrous argument. Assume for a moment that it is true. What does that tell you? It tells you that the war brigade is perfectly happy to pick some distant far away country, wreak total havoc and allow it to descend into chaos, simply so the bad guys do not knock on their own doors. This is consequentialism at its worst. This is evil.