Editorial: War Of Values

Are we fanning the flames of terrorism?

From today's Winston-Salem Journal:

"The terror attacks in London Thursday coincided by design with the meeting of the leaders of the G-8 industrial powers and, probably unintentionally, showed the world the stark contrast between the aims of Islamic terror organizations and the Western democracies... There are those in the Islamic world who will justify the attacks based on the Iraq War... In an odd way, with such pronouncements the terrorist leaders mimic the Bush administration's spurious attempts to connect Sept. 11, 2001, and Iraq. Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with those attacks, but the Bush administration used them as an excuse to attack Iraq. The war in Iraq, correspondingly, has nothing to do with Islamic fundamentalist attacks in the West. The war only helps terrorist leaders recruit more suicide bombers for a terror campaign they would wage regardless of Iraq and Afghanistan."