Bush’s Bizzaro World

Maybe there isn’t enough room in his world of subjective reality and truth for the rest of us. He pronounced today that the “terrorists want us to leave Iraq so that they can set up a base of operations there in which to attack America.” Bush has truly lost all forms of logic and affirmative ideas. His foreign policy objectives are in line with only one other person: Osama Bin Laden.

In fact, according to Bin Laden (read his manifesto), the decision to attack Iraq was a key link in the chain of events for the Muslim world to regain a strong and durable caliphate. According, to Bin Laden’s own order of operations, US forces must invade a Muslim country so that, “he can have targets close to his holy warriors.” Thus, when Bush went head long into the desert of Iraq Bin Laden smiled with glee. He understood that the more time spent in the desert the time spent killing Americans. Moreover, terrorism has risen throughout the world, since 9-11 except for America, Why? Because the targets are in Iraq, why leave the house when you can have the food delivered?

Consequently, stubbornness and arrogance will only lead to our destruction and the fragile life of Iraqi democracy (which most academic and political scientists agree that democratic consolidation takes at least 20 years –see Huntington, Lipset, Diamond and Putnam) will be extinguished before it takes root. Bush seems to think, if he keeps talking about subjective realities, then they will over time become objective truth. You can not blame him for this illogical approach to foreign and domestic policy. For this cerebral construct has worked in the past. Weapons of mass destruction, Bin Laden ties to Saddam, torture and intelligent design just to name a few popular triumphs for Bush’s Bizzaro World. Maybe if we all band together and announce that he is utterly correct and our troops must begin permanent settlements within the region, he would change his mind. Fearing that the ‘unintelligent masses have it wrong’ (he is a Straussian at heart) Bush may finally consider removing American targets from the region.