By Rob Kall
Ask the Spaniards, Fillipinos, Moroccans, Saudis, Turks and the rest of the nations that have been victims of explosion in terrorism since the Iraq Invasion if the world is a safer place thanks to George Bush. .
This morning the main news story is the bombing of a train in Spain, with over 130 dead and hundreds more injured. Blame it on the George Bush's terrorism laboratory in Iraq.
A laboratory is where experiments are carried out. New approaches and combinations are tried and the results observed. Different ingredients, different energy factors, chemistries, components are combined and tested.
In Iraq the ingredients are weapons and costumes, vehicles and buried bombs, kilos of explosives and choices of targets.
George Bush and his idiot crew of advisors decided that the best way to protect America and the rest of the world from terrorism was to attack Iraq. Now that the lie about WMDs has been exposed, the alternate justification is that it was worth committing hundreds of thousands of US troops, hundreds of billions of dollars (I predicted last year that ultimate costs will exceed a trillion dollars and it looks like it will happen sooner than I expected) and the loss of hundreds of American and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives.
Well, let's factor in the explosion in terrorist activity that has occurred since the invasion. A clear side-effect of the Bush-led invasion of Iraq has been a massive influx of terrorists into Iraq, an explosion of terrorist activity within Iraq, the creation of the best recruiting tool terrorists have ever had and perhaps most frightening, these all add up to the creation of a terrorism laboratory that is rapidly spawning copycats all over the planet. So far, the superpowers have been lucky at escaping these assaults. But it is only time until another tragedy hits the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany or any of the other US "allies" with forces in Iraq.
Rupert Sheldrake, inventor of morphogenetic field theory, proposed that the existence of a form or action makes the repetition or replication of that form or action more likely. Jung described the concept of archetype, which wikkipedia describes "an original model on which something is patterned or based."
Call it morphogenetic field or archetype, inspiration, example, suggestion... Bush's Iraqi terrorism laboratory is setting examples of inspiration, motivating and activating, energizing, mobilizing and dis-inhibiting terrorists and budding terrorists around the world. Each new terrorist act in Iraq plants the idea of killing, of terrorism, of attacking government, authority, the USA... and also how to do it.
Iraq has become a laboratory, a recruiting range, a practice field where terrorists can try out basic skills and new approaches and technologies, train beginners to become pros, and rehearse missions they then execute in other countries.
This did not happen after the Bay of Pigs, Viet Nam, Nicaragua or Kosovo. These were also controversial conflicts. But the level of idiocy, of incompetent lack of planning was far lower. The eruption of massive terrorist activity WAS foreseen in Iraq. Bush and his advisors knew what they were creating.
But that's not all. You don't pour gasoline into a fire or salt into a wound. That's exactly what Bush has done to terrorism with his macho cowboy in-your face, "bring it on" attitude. It takes smart diplomacy, grounded in good intelligence and science to deal with the modern world and all its complicated situations. Bush and his advisors have painted themselves into a fundamentalist corner of black and white issues that preclude their being able to apply the art of recognizing nuance (definition from dictionary.com: "A subtle or slight degree of difference, as in meaning, feeling, or tone; a gradation."
Bush's kick-their-ass approach allows for no subtlety, no modulation. It may make his hypertestosteroned less than high school graduated southern male constituency feel more vicariously manly, but it's bad for America and bad for the rest of the world.
Ask the 500+ victims and their families of the Spanish train disaster if Bush has made the world a safer place. Unfortunately, with the abysmal state of the world's media, only a few will probably realize that Bush's small, puppet controlled brain had something to do with their suffering. It will take a leader who thinks and leads based on principles, not campaign contributions to show the world a set of examples, to restore the American archetypes of democracy instead of the archetype of violence that Bush has set in motion.
Rob Kall rob@opednews.com is editor/founder of OpEdNews.com. This article is copyright Rob Kall and originally published by opednews.com but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog or web media so long as this credit paragraph is attached. Over 85 other articles by Rob Kall
