Journalist Chris Floyd of Empire Burlesque points us to Andrew Greeley‘s astonishing commentary in today’s Chicago Sun-Times, “Expect terrorists to bring war to us.”
I’ve been puzzled why we’ve had no suicide bombings in the U.S. Greeley now foresees that happening, thanks to Iraq:
It is not unreasonable to expect that other young men will soon be destroying themselves in this country as they blow up Americans in shopping malls and restaurants and hospitals and churches. The chickens of the criminal war in Iraq will come home to roost. No matter that the majority of Americans disapprove of the war. It is too late for that now.
Is he right? Or are his and my worries unfounded? Greeley points to the already migrating pattern of terrorist attacks:
Greeley, a “Renaissance priest,” teaches sociology and writes a weekly column for the Chicago Sun-Times.
John F. Harris in his book Survivor describes in detail President Clinton’s agonizing reluctance to engage in military action overseas. There were so many contingencies, so many things that might go wrong. The current administration has never worried about such problems. Convinced of our indomitable might, ignorant of the lessons of history, unconcerned about what might go wrong, it plunged blithely into the Bid Muddy. The rationalizations of weapons of mass destruction and Saddam’s involvement in the World Trade Center attack were false.
Now the president, dismissing the revelations about the weapons of mass destruction (the vice president apparently still believes them) is content to say that he still thinks the United States has done “the right thing.” However, the majority of Americans and even some Republicans want the United States out of Iraq. The military says it will take four years to train an effective Iraqi army. The Big Muddy gets deeper.
Priest and sociologist that he is, Greeley ends by asking: