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 terrorists otherwise known as Abroad' was home to the first civilizations 
 and is home now to some of the most sophisticated, educated people in the 
 region? Don't Americans realize that abroad' is a country full of people 
 - -- men, women and children who are dying hourly? Abroad' is home for 
 millions of us. It's the place we were raised and the place we hope to 
 raise our children -- your field of war and terror." 
  
 FAILED-STATE WORLD 
  
 "The war on terror goes on..." What a thing to say. We are now in a 
 destabilizing world, and it will undoubtedly only get worse as George 
 Bush's "war" to stop terror goes on and on and on. The Bush administration 
 will never cease to lend a hand -- no matter what it thinks it's doing -- 
 to those evil ones who will take innocent lives without a blink. It is 
 ever ready to destabilize the oil heartlands of our planet, what not so 
 long ago was regularly called "the arc of instability" (before any of our 
 pundits really knew what instability was all about). The two countries the 
 Bush administration has occupied are both dismally failed states 
 effectively ruled by no one. One is now proudly held up by the President 
 as the central theater in the war on terror, the other is the prime 
 narco-state on the planet. And it's clear that only the revealed weakness 
 of a military giant that turned out to be incapable of imposing its will 
 on two of the weaker states on Earth has prevented further radical acts of 
 "decapitation," armed "regime change," and thoroughgoing destabilization. 
  
 Remember when neocons authors were writing about a world of "failed 
 states," that jungle out there just beyond our civilization? Where are 
 they now that we need them? The bombings in London signal that, in such a 
 failed-state world, failure -- and the carnage that goes with it -- only 
 spreads like so many ripples in a pond into which someone is catapulting 
 boulders. Nor will our leaders hesitate to destabilize our own country, 
 turning it from the ultimate hyperpower into the ultimate failed state in 
 a failed world. 
  
 There is a similar piece, I have no doubt, to be written about the maniacs 
 - -- and yes, they have their strategies and their reasons and their 
 grievances, including George Bush's Iraq War -- who are willing to climb 
 into a car in Iraq, or take an underground ride in London with a backpack 
 filled with explosives, or smash a plane into a tall building, or blow up 
 a synagogue, or... They believe no less than our President in their 
 fictional version of reality and are no less eager to impose it on the 
 rest of us. They too, given half a chance, would create their own failed 
 states in a failed-state world. 
  
 It is perhaps an insult to children to compare the Bush administration to 
 them, but I'm at a loss for images. I'm a deeply civil person. If I had my 
 choice, like so many people in this world of ours, I would simply wash my 
 hands of their apocalypts and ours. Unfortunately, that's not possible. 
 Theirs, at least, are someone else's responsibility, but George and his 
 malign fictional worlds are, it seems, mine. 
  
 The sad thing is that the truth is relatively simple. What people using 
 terror in the fashion of London are quite capable of doing is killing and 
 maiming randomly and in large numbers and perhaps in the process revealing 
 to us both how fragile and how strong our world actually is. What they are 
 completely incapable of doing, no matter what George Bush says, is taking 
 our liberties and freedoms away. They can't take anything away. Only we 
 can do that. 
  
  
  
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