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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

The '08 presidential Iraq debate in a nutshell.

The AFP sums it up.
Fresh carnage in Kabul and a rising death toll among US troops are thrusting once-forgotten Afghanistan into the thick of the intensifying White House showdown between John McCain and Barack Obama.

Democratic presumptive nominee Obama is promising to redeploy large numbers of US combat troops from Iraq to Afghanistan if he is elected president in November, in an effort to quell resurgent militant activity.

Republican candidate John McCain however maintains that Iraq is the central front of the "war on terror" adding that a US withdrawal would embolden terrorists and US enemies, and that the two wars cannot be seen in isolation.


That "central front in the war on terror" line has really worn out its shelf life. More important than actually being wrong, it feels wrong now, doesn't it?

"Iraq is the central front in the war on terror....."

posted by mikevotes at 7:44 AM

7 Comments:

  • The main thing is that Joe Public thinks there really is a War on Terror and not a series of unconnected insurgency movements.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:55 AM  

  • Fair point.

    The semantic use of "terror" as a broadener rather than "Al Qaeda" has been hugely successful.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 8:58 AM  

  • It's almost better than a microchip implant.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:16 AM  

  • But the implant emits those soothing chemicals......

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 10:43 AM  

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