Robert L. Borosage: Bin Laden’s New Weapon of Mass Destruction
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 24th, 2008 5:42 am by HL
Robert L. Borosage: Bin Laden’s New Weapon of Mass Destruction
Afghanistan, of course, is the central front in the war on terror. But perhaps we’d be wiser to leave bin Laden in his cave, abandon the entire wrong-headed misnomer of a “war on terror,” and give up attempting to build a new democracy in a country on the other side of the world. Make aggressive global policing, intelligence sharing, and a crackdown on financial flows the core of our reaction to bin Laden, and focus our resources and attention on the crisis here at home, which remains truly terrifying to anyone who looks at it closely.
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