James Fallows told readers of the Atlantic: “The time has come to declare the war on terror over, so that an even more effective military and diplomatic campaign can begin.”
Now Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post says that Bush isn’t even fighting the war on terrorism. Robinson adds, “There are
deadly enemies out there, and one way to fight them, as the British
demonstrated yesterday, is through intelligence.” Apparently, despite
the joint press conferences and the terrible wiretapping and financial
transaction monitoring and other infringements on our civil liberties,
the Bush administration has been doing nothing except looking for new
ways to abuse those poor boys in Guantamo who we can’t send back to
their home governments because they’ll really face torture there.
The
reason why the Left sees a conspiracy in the timing is because their
support for Ned Lamont is a symbol of their incoherent desire to win
the war without fighting it. Maybe we should have just declared victory
over the Soviet Union in 1975 before we withdrew from Vietnam.
