WaxWorks
|
Monday, January 29, 2007
Oh, That'll Help Things
It's fairly well-settled that one of the motivating factors behind Islamic terrorism against the United States is anger over the stationing of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War. Indeed, Bin Laden has explictly cited this as one of the things that has motivated his anti-American sentiment.
So I was fairly stunned when I read about Dick Cheney's interview in Newsweek, and the fact that the Veep had this to say:
Vice President Cheney said the deployment this month of a second
aircraft-carrier task force to the Persian Gulf delivered a "strong signal" of
the United States' commitment to confront Iran's growing influence in the
region.
Countries in the Middle East "want us to have a major presence
there," Cheney said in a Newsweek interview published online yesterday.
Referring to the deployment of the carrier USS John C. Stennis, Cheney said,
"That sends a very strong signal to everybody in the region that the
United States is here to stay, that we clearly have significant
capabilities, and that we are working with friends and allies as well as the
international organizations to deal with the Iranian threat."
If I was on the right, I might ask: why does Dick Cheney hate America? Instead, I'll just note this with interest and derision.
Comments:
Post a Comment
