>>>The US administration and its hawks are stuck in a 'state-centric perspective, cold war idea that deterrence is about overwhelming power and offense. But that has nothing to do with the overwhelming reality of this threat.<<<
Looks like everyone except Dick Cheney is saying the same thing. The bipartisan Iraq study group, Bush's own generals and his closest allies. So naturally Cheney must be the one who's right says Bush after 4 years that have led to this:
"Two new studies, one by the Saudi government and one by an Israeli think tank, which "painstakingly analyzed the backgrounds and motivations of hundreds of foreigners entering Iraq to fight the United States" have found that most foreign fighters in Iraq were not terrorists before the Iraq war, but were "radicalized by the war itself."
Bush/Cheney understand this full well and yet they keep pouring more soldiers into this slaughter house. Anyone still supporting this duo is either a traitor or clinically retarded imo.
