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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

An ideological basis for endless war

robert parry's view on cheney's 1% doctrine...
[I]f Bush seeks to eradicate a succession of one-percent threats, he could well find himself trapped within a growing web of interrelated consequences, each pulling in their own entangling complexities. The end result could leave the United States in a much worse predicament than when the process began.

clearly that's the case, and we've also seen the following used to great effect...
[W]hether or not to invoke the one-percent doctrine gives them [Bush and Cheney] the ultimate debate-stopping argument.

imho, one key element that parry overlooks is that, if any threat perceived to be over 1% must be responded to as a certainty, we now can see with stunning clarity the ideological basis for an endless war on terror...

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