If terrorism is a cancer, treat it like one

If terrorism is a cancer, treat it like one
In the spirit of President-elect Obama's call for unity, the present divide between opponents and supporters of the war in Iraq needs to be healed. On one side, as represented by President Bush in his exit interviews, the war is seen, post-surge, as a key success in the war on terror. On the other side, as voiced by peace advocates, the Iraq War has been a dismal, shameful failure that did nothing to lessen the threat of terror around the world.


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Let's leave aside the bitter acrimony that separates these two views. An intelligence report recently cited by Joe Biden has concluded that Arab outrage over Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo probably created more terrorists than the number vanquished in Iraq. But that fact won't deter the right wing, which insists that Bush was totally justified to "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here."