Echoes Of The Bush Doctrine
On the evening of September 11, 2001, President Bush conferred with his war cabinet deep in the ground below the White House. After being informed by his advisors that al-Qaeda was based in Afghanistan but operating across many countries, the
Washington Post reported, the president responded with what can be considered the first draft of the Bush Doctrine:
Let's pick them off one at a time.
Last week al-Jazeera, the propaganda arm of Islamic terrorism,
announced the latest war cry (actually, more like a war whine) from al-Qaeda's leadership. Since Usama bin Laden is composting beneath tons of Afghan cave rubble, the message was purportedly recorded by his second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri. In a nearly desperate tone, al-Zawahiri inadvertently affirms the effectiveness of the Bush Doctrine (emphasis added):
The youth must not wait for anyone and must begin resisting from now — and take experience and lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan and Chechnya ... The interests of the Americans, British, Australians, French, Polish, Norwegians, South Koreans and Japanese are spread everywhere. We must not wait more ... or we will be devoured one country after the other.
So much for John Kerry's slur that the liberation of Iraq is a "grand diversion" from the war on terrorism.
Before casting their ballot on November 2, voters should consider this disturbing fact: not only does John Kerry oppose the Bush Doctrine, so does al-Qaeda.
