It has been fashionable — indeed, de rigueur in political and media circles — to view contemptuously President Bush's assertion that we are fighting the terrorists in Iraq so we don't have to fight them here. Even conservative commentators have tended to tiptoe around the proposition. We are all far too sophisticated to believe such simplicities. Nor will any self-respecting public chatterer even raise the little matter of America not being hit by terrorism on our soil for the alm ...

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