Umm...Looks Like We're Going to Have To Fight Them Over Here

One of the most persistent yet hackneyed arguments from the right for maintaining current Iraq policy is that we're "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here." It's been repeated countless times by the echo chamber and the President himself.

But the release of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) this week points out that Al Qaida is more likely to attack on US soil because of its association with the separate Al Qaida in Iraq.

It's another instance of the hypocrisy. We're going to fight them over here because we're fighting them over there. Can anyone rationally believe that we are not creating more hatred and increasing the number of terrorists by our continued presence?

It's a tragedy on a global scale, and there is no truly satisfactory answer in sight. But we must begin to get out. Now.