Bush’s false dualism

Bush’s false dualism
Gene Lyons
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
URL: http://www.nwanews.com/story/adg/96145
Rhetorically speaking, George W. Bush’s most seductive argument for invading Iraq is that it’s better to "fight the terrorists around the world so we do not have to face them here at home." That’s what he said during his disastrous first debate with Sen. John Kerry. You hear his supporters repeating the formula every day. For some, it’s like this: Arabs killed Americans, so fighting terror means killing Arabs. Unfortunately, like much of his scripted, action/adventure film dialogue, Bush’s false dualism has prevented people from grasping the nature of the terrorist enemy, the vastness of the Arab world and the limits of American power...