The same old politics of terror (Boston Globe Editorial)

[struggle4progress]

June 29, 2008

WHEN ASKED about the effect of another terrorist attack on American soil, John McCain's chief strategist, Charlie Black, responded rashly and bluntly. "Certainly it would be a big advantage" for McCain, Black told Fortune magazine recently. Similarly, the strategist described the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto in December as "an unfortunate event," but said "it helped us" in the contest for the nomination ...

Is Black right to assume that McCain would benefit politically after another terrorist atrocity in the United States? The subject came up when the Fortune interviewer first asked McCain "what single economic threat he perceives above all others" and McCain, after a long silence, said: "Well, I would think that the absolute gravest threat is the struggle that we're in against radical Islamist extremism."

Perhaps McCain is merely determined to stay on message, so much so that he answers an economics question from a business magazine with a non sequitur that is supposed to play to his ostensible strength, national security. Or perhaps McCain would rather not talk about foreclosures, the credit crisis, disappearing jobs, healthcare, and tax policy - economic issues in which Republican dogma and public sentiment diverge significantly ...

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/06/29/the_same_old_politics_of_terror/

[AndyTiedye]

1. A war with Iran Is the Gravest Threat to the Economy Today

so in a sense he is right.

:eyes:

[BB1]

2. A dirty bomb in Washinton, D.C. would do it.

planted by the shadowy coverts. It will have all the makings of an Iranian dirty bomb, but it would be fabricated in Utah or Colorado, of course.
Right after the 'attack', Bush and co will turn on Iran, let the drones fly with the real bombs. Within days, the M.E. will be in turmoil and forever lost due to radiation.

The US will have no fall out problems, except for greater Washington DC. Dollar will collapse, McCain will win, the US population will lose (again).

One minor detail: no more worries about illegal immigrants: everyone showing up at the border with five euro's is an instant millionaire and is welcomed in.