Somalia. Now, I know they don’t have oil or anything like that, but let’s face it: this is a classic case of how Bush’s war has sowed the seeds of future conflict, all because our leaders are too trapped in their own mythology about “Islamofascism.” There was a chance for diplomacy and international aid to quell the Islamacist rise to power, and we blew it. Just as we’re failing to properly understand what the actual Islamacist threat really is, around the globe, challenging the old orders of corrupt dictators and Western puppet governments. Think on what it means, as the article points out, how the Islamacists are more popular than the once-powerful warlords, and how similar power shifts are occuring in Muslim nations the globe over. By losing in Iraq, Bush has taught the fundamentalists an important lesson: the West can’t stop them. Thanks, Chimpy.

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