Greatest Threat to US is the Arrogance of Her Own Government

The greatest threat to the United States of America lies not in the weapons of mass destruction being harvested in poor countries such as Iraq, but in the arrogance of her own government. For a year following the attacks on September 11 2001, the Bush administration has been making war-like speeches against countries such as Iraq, North Korea, and Pakistan concerning their ‘build up of weapons of mass destruction.’ Such threats are now nearing true as the crisis in Iraq continues.
The American government has adopted a no-tolerance approach to Iraq following UN inspectors’ entrance into Iraq on November 17. As this Iraqi show of compliance with the United Nations and the United States of America occurred the US simultaneously attacked Iraqi air defence targets. This is apparently in response to what the American military claimed were attempts to shoot down their planes. In attacking air defence targets the Bush administration is only taunting Iraq further at a tim...