Lately everyone in the world has had one of many things sitting in the back of their mind: The Crisis in the Middle East.
President Bush has stated that unless Iraq disarms itself form biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons, war is unavoidable. For the past 10 years Iraq had defied and hid from commands from the United Nations regarding their stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction. When the U.N. weapons inspectors went into Iraq, the Iraqi government had the weapons moved so the inspects could not find them. But again and again, Iraq got away with it and the U.N. did nothing.
Saddam Hussein, one of the most ruthless government rulers in the world today governs Iraq. Hussein has been compared to the likes of Hitler and Stalin, and much like the cold war; the war against terrorism has been described as a "long twilight struggle". It's a never-ending fight in the dark that we can only give false hopes of winning.
At first comparison, Hussein and Hitler aren't very similar. Obviously Hitler was a German Nazi leader and Hussein is an Islamic Iraqi leader. But as well all know the depth of human nature does not change by race or religion. Hitler swallowed countries and destroyed Jewish people in a large scale, while Hussein has remained moderately low-key since he tried invading Kuwait and destroying the Kurds. Terrorism knows no restrictions. It has made obsolete the old standard of what makes a threat against world peace, which is "territorial aggression". Back in the day, if you kept dictators and tyrants in their own space then our defense was considered a success. But now after Osama bin Laden's attack on the United States September 11, we are not able to just sit back and contain possible terrorism. The many governments of the world feel that it needs to be wiped out.
Since September 11, President Bush would very much like to see all forms of terrorism eradicated; From Iraq, to Bin Laden.