Mike: The terrorists are a police problem -- a serious problem, I'll grant you, but are they nothing compared to the threat that the Bush Administrations' policies are doing to this country, to its Constitution, to its economy, to its moral values and to our standing in the world.
Please explain this in detail if you get a chance. "Terrorists [elision] are a serious police problem." Okay, gotcha. "The threat that the Bush Administration's policies are doing" .... ?Do you mean (a) The harm that the Bush Administrations policies threaten to cause, or (b) The harm that the Bush Administration policies are causing...?
If it's "b" -- and I'll assume that you mean "b" because it makes a lot more sense; "threatening to harm" may mean everything's okay for now -- then what harm are Bush policies causing to
*this country, *its Constitution, *ts economy, *its moral values, and *our standing in the worldthat eclipse the threat of al-Qaeda? And how do they relate? What's your calculus here?
For example, it's a given that a lot more people are anti-American (your last category of harm) but how does that relate to whether or not al-Qaeda sets off a nuke, or attacks our food supplies with bioweapons?
Do you mean, for example, that Iraq has created more jihadis and that's more harmful than an actual attack, or do you mean that creating more jihadis makes an attack more likely? If it's the latter, then you are comparing jihadis to jihadis, i.e., fighting jihadis in Iraq makes it more likely that jihadis will attack the food supply with bioweapons. Both sides of the threat (or harm) are jihadis.
Even granting that the last premise is true, at worst Bush is merely the midwife of a Janus-faced threat that has jihadis on both sides of it. So how does that fit your claim? It would be the same if the Dems had won in 2004: jihadis versus jihadis, the al-Qaeda franchise planning an overseas attack on the US, versus the al-Qaeda franchise planning a domestic US attack.
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