Shocking! It turns out that half-finishing the war in Afghanistan and then shunting our resources to invade an irrelevant country, and then losing that war, was not the genius strategy for beating terrorism that the White House seems to think it was. If you judge winning the terror war in terms of weakening the group who attacked us, we’re not.
Other strategies might also use some reevaluation. Start with, say, torturing random brown people until they confess to shooting JFK and jerking around the national terror level based on presidential elections and Michael Chertoff’s gut. At the very least it seemed like keeping Americans in a state of constant terror would prove a surefire weapon against people whose primary goal is to make us afraid.
Yeesh. 2009 cannot come soon enough.