Senator Hollings (Democrat, South Carolina) may have a rather implausible (!) theory about the objectives of the Bush Administration in invading Iraq–Noam Chomsky is a lot closer to the mark on that one (“Establishing the first secure military base in a dependant client state at the heart of the energy producing region of the world”)–but he is surely right about the fake “war on terror”:

“Terrorism is a method, not a war. We don’t call the Crimean War with the Charge of the Light Brigade the Cavalry War. Or World War II the Blitzkrieg War. There is terrorism in Northern Ireland against the Brits. There is terrorism in India and in Pakistan. In the Mideast, terrorism is a separate problem to be defeated by diplomacy and negotiation, not militarily. Here, might does not make right — right makes might. Acting militarily, we have created more terrorism than we have eliminated.”