January 22, 2005

Bush's Inauguration Speech was right on the Money

Strategypage.com has an informative post on the current state of terrorism, what's causing it, and what the ultimate solution is. In the article, they say…

How does one defeat this Islamic terrorism? The simplest way is to bring good government and education to Moslem nations, and let them prosper. Overthrowing Saddam Hussein, easily the worst of a bad bunch of Moslem despots, and getting a democracy going in Iraq, is the Islamic radicals’ worst nightmare. It was always thought that Iraq would be one of the last nations to be overthrown by Islamic radicals. That’s because Saddam had built one of the most effective police states in the Moslem world. The problem there now is that the thugs, who made that police state work, are still in business. And just to show you how bizarre this whole business is, a year ago, the Saddam diehards and Islamic radicals joined forces in Iraq to try and prevent a democracy from being established. Both groups are natural enemies, and even if they forced coalition troops to leave, it would eventually have to come to a battle between Saddam’s secular thugs, and the Islamic radicals, to determine who would rule Iraq.

StrategyPage recommends the same as Bush. I really recommend you read the whole post and make up your own mind. But he does make a good case.

Posted by Ted at January 22, 2005 3:54 PM