Al Qaeda started its war against West well before Iraq War

Fire of Liberty

Michael J. Totten has a wonderful article over at Tech Central Station that destroys the pacifistic arguments being bandied around the various newspapers and TV newsrooms that the train stations and buses would not have been attacked in London had the British not joined in on Operation Iraqi Freedom. Though I'll let you read the whole piece on your own, I found these following paragraphs very interesting:

Anyway, the logic that Britain or any other country should stay out of Iraq in order to duck Al Qaeda's crosshairs is the logic of pacifism. It makes no sense to use this logic selectively when picking and choosing which battleground is acceptable and which is not (Afghanistan yes, Iraq no) unless you're against fighting back categorically. No military action is acceptable to Al Qaeda. Any and all can provoke retaliation.

Those who argue this line of reasoning are going to have to go all the way with it or drop it entirely. They're either pacifists or they aren't. Military strikes against terrorists and their enablers should be eschewed in order to avoid retaliation or they should not be. Al Qaeda is not going to take any country off its enemy's list if it only withdraws from one of two combat fronts in the Terror War.

It's awesome to see people like Totten taking down canards like these that are always being put up by the pacifist ninnies of the world. Luckily, more people see things from Totten's perspective than the wacky anti-war crowd.