On Heads of Pins

Krauthammer sniffs his own arse. Likes what he smells and plunges in head first, then has the WaPo where-with-all to spit it out online and share it with us.

Isn't that special.

The question posed -- does the Iraq war increase or decrease the world supply of jihadists? -- is itself an exercise in counting angels on the head of a pin. Any answer would require a complex calculation involving dozens of unmeasurable factors, as well as construction of a complete alternate history of the world had the U.S. invasion of 2003 not happened.

Of course, he goes on to describe a growing terrorist movement pre-Iraq and how - and in one important sense, he's right - Iraq's magnetism to terrorism has kept the killers out of our country.

No attacks in the U.S. in the last 5 years, right?

Who cares who else is getting beheaded, bombed or waterboarded in that same time.

It is an issue of time frame. The bombing of the Japanese home islands may have increased short-term recruiting for the kamikazes. But success in the Pacific war put a definitive end to the whole affair.

Oh oh . . .

I'm really hoping this guy has lost any influence he's ever had in D.C., but even if he's just parroting the present patriarchy's current long range plans, that's sounding like we may not be waiting for anybody's dirty bombs before someone (the good? the righteous? the Chimperor?) goes for the nuclear fireworks...


History unfolding