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Good Thing We Have Soldiers in Iraq

You have probably heard about the most recent terror plot that was unfolding in England over the past couple of days. The plot was to use seemingly innocuous ingredients to construct a bomb on an airplane and subsequently detonate it when the plane was over the Atlantic Ocean.

My first thought was, “Good thing we have soldiers in Iraq.” I mean, President Bush told us we were going to take the fight to the terrorists so we didn’t have to fight them here at home. Because, you know, if we weren’t fighting the insurgents in Iraq, these British Muslims would have been successful in their attempts to detonate these airplane explosives. It was only through our thousands of lives lost, tens of thousands of soldiers maimed, and hundred of billions dollars spent in Iraq that we were able to protect those commercial airliners flying from England to the United States.

I hope these kinds of plots make people more aware of where the real war on terror is taking place. It’s not taking place within the increasingly violent sectarian civil war that is unfolding in Iraq. It’s taking place in the United States. In Great Britain. Throughout Europe. In parts of Western Asia. Everywhere small terror cells can get together and plot the destruction of that which they think is valuable to their enemy. The Sunnis and Shiites waging war on each other in Iraq couldn’t care less about transatlantic flights from Heathrow to JFK.

Fortunately a majority of Americans seem to agree:

Sixty percent of Americans oppose the U.S. war in Iraq, the highest number since polling on the subject began with the commencement of the war in March 2003…