Flypaper, Schmypaper

My friend, Scott, has caught on to Andrew Sullivan's flypaper theory.

I haven't bought into the notion that America is specifically in Afghanistan and Iraq to bait foreign nations into a trap, it just seems to be beyond the capability of a government to articulate, formulate and execute such a strategy. Especially the government of a democratic, open society. It's just too much like a Hollywood movie.

What I have thought is that Sullivan's theory articulates the strategy that we have taken the fight to the enemy, on their turf, in their land. It is more desirable to fight a war on somebody else's homeland, rather than ours.

If there had been more attacks after 9/11 on U.S. soil, does anybody believe that Americans would be worried about the California recall? Or the rhetoric coming from the Democratic presidential candidates? Or the stock market? Or Bennifer?

It believe that it is safe to say that our strategy, in either case, is working.