There are lots of different ways to look at the latest news about Zarqawi.
Before his death, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had recruited hundreds of people who received terrorist training in Iraq and then returned to their home countries to await orders, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.
Citing high-ranking security officials in Jordan, the Times said that in addition to recruiting volunteers and suicide bombers to fight in Iraq, Zarqawi had recruited some 300 people who received terrorist training in Iraq before returning home to await orders to carry out strikes.
I’m sure some of you will be thinking – see, if we hadn’t invaded Iraq this never would have happened. Bulls**t.
Think of the earth as a person. Now think of that person as having a respiratory infection. For the sake of argument, we’ll call that afflication Islamofascism. There are two options – ignore the cough and hope the body heals itself, or use whatever medicine you have available.
I prefer to use the medicine, which in this case, is military force. It may cause the infection to reacy violently, but in the long run that will speed up the healing process. Sometimes, medicine makes you feel sicker than you would otherwise but it mostly helps you get rid of your infection.