Boomerang Effect

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 09:05:56 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

William S. Lind at LewRockwell.com - some are worried that Iraqi insurgents will begin blowing up IEDs here in the U.S. of A. Much worse, says Mr. Lind. American soldiers coming home from a failed war will be the ones who bring the IED technology home. Their likely targets? Police. [lew]

The Bush administration, as usual, has it exactly backwards. The danger is not that the "terrorists" we are fighting in Iraq will come here if we pull out there. Rather, American involvement in 4GW in Iraq will create "terrorism" here from among the people we have sent to fight the war there. Well educated in the ways of successful insurgency, they will come home embittered by a lost war, by friends dead and crippled for life to no purpose. Thanks to America's de-industrialization, they will return to no jobs, or lousy "service" jobs at minimum wage. Angry, frustrated and futureless, some of them will find new identities and loyalties in gangs and criminal enterprises, where they can put their new talents to work.

It will, of course, be only a small minority of returning troops who will go this route. But something else they will have learned from the Iraqi insurgents, along with how to make and deploy IEDs, is that it takes very few people to create and sustain an insurgency.

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