Attacked by WHO? Where?

Funny thing happened while making a visit today… Vice-President Dick “Bunker Boy” Cheney stuck his head out from his “undisclosed location” to make one of his mystery visits when he was actually attacked by TERRORISTS!

Yes, TERRORISTS! Bad guys! Otherwise known as “the enemy”.

Okay, so the bad guys weren’t anywhere NEAR the Veep, but it was STILL in the general vicinity so it was close enough chalk it up as an assassination attempt.

So here’s a quick quiz… WHERE was “Bunker Boy” when this attempt happened?

Was he in Baghdad, Iraq?

Was he in Washington DC?

Was he in some no-name redneck town in Alabama that you can only find by going off the paved road and turning left at the kid with the tractor? You know, the one that still manages to get $10,000 a year in Homeland Security money?

The correct answer is “none of the above.”

Cheney was actually in Afghanistan!

Yes, Afghanistan! Where the “bad guys” were!

Now, help me out here… I thought that we had that area “under control”? You know, we supposedly had the Taliban “on the run”? That was one of the key reasons why we moved our “War on Bad Guys” tour over to Iraq.

Okay, in all seriousness, this whole episode does prove something that most Americans already know… that the REAL bad guys are in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And that’s really where any kind of “surge” should be heading in the first place.

You see, boys and girls, we screwed up. We allowed Pakistan and Afghanistan broker deals that allowed the Taliban and their friends in Al Qaeda to live. That was stupid. We allowed that mistake to happen so we could say that the problem was “contained” so we could move over to Iraq and deal with Saddam. It WAS NOT contained. It was nowhere NEAR being contained.

I’m a former fireman. I know that when you’re dealing with a forest fire that the worst part of it is not what you see on the ground…it’s what is spreading just underneath the surface through the roots and dead compost. Every so often you’ll see some flashpoint, a little tuft of smoke and some flames, but just because you have water over that area doesn’t mean that the fire is “contained”. You actually have to dig up roots and overturn the rotted leaves in order to get to that kind of fire.

Well my friends, THAT is what is needed to deal with terrorism in that part of the world. That’s why we failed to deal with it before the Iraq War, and now it’s coming back to bite us in the butt. Or in this case to scare our “Bunker Boy” back into his bunker.