The Iraq war is not radicalizing the Muslim extremists as much as the successful strike against the US on 9/11 did.
When the terrorists struck a huge blow against the US, and make no mistake it was a masterful stroke, they gave hope and courage to many would be terrorists. When Bush invaded Afghanistan and routed the Taliban, it let them know that there would be a huge price for any future actions against the US. If Bush had not gone into Afghanistan, the people of the US would have demanded his head.
posted by Miss Carnivorous @ 3:15 PM
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The left is screaming we are less safe than before the war. I agree in a way that we are less safe. There are more extremist willing to fight and yes the "successful" attack brought on more extremeist.
Here is the part that I think that is the big difference ...
At least now the damn "Islamophuqnut terrorist" are less safe also!
And we need to continue the pressure until NO Islamophuqnut is safe anywhere in the world!
President Bush likes to say he will stay the course in Iraq. The question is: What course?
Is it the course that has so far cost some 2,700 American lives, 100 Iraqi lives a day, and an estimated expenditure of $300 billion so far?
The course that will defeat the islamophuqnuts.
The course that will create more lunatics anti-DumBush !
Anan,
Before the Iraq war extremist steadily escalated their assault from small bombings to 9-11 with no one hitting back.
Your policy of leave them alone and they will go away is ...
Any idea why USA were attacked on such a scale on 9/11 and not...say... Japan, or Norway, China, Germany, France...?
Does the word Palestine ring any bell for instance ?
"Any idea why USA were attacked on such a scale on 9/11"
Yes the Islamophuqnuts have told US why and they did not mention the word "Palestine".
IF your head hurts from listening to the Washington furor over the latest National Intelligence Estimate, by all means tune it out. The entire debate is meaningless except as a damning election-year indicator of just how madly our leaders are fiddling while Iraq burns.
The supposedly shocking key finding in the N.I.E. — that the Iraq war is a boon to terrorism — isn’t remotely news. It first turned up in a classified C.I.A. report leaked to the press in June 2005. It’s also long been visible to the naked eye. The latest New York Times/CBS News poll, conducted before any revelations from the N.I.E., found that nearly half the country believes that the Iraq war is increasing the terrorist threat against America and only 12 percent thinks the war is decreasing that threat. Americans don’t have to pore over leaked intelligence documents to learn this. They just have to turn on the television.
Tonight on “60 Minutes,” Bob Woodward will spill another supposedly shocking intelligence finding revealed in his new book: a secret government prediction that the insurgency will grow worse next year. Who’d have thunk it? Given that the insurgency is growing worse every day right now — last week suicide bombings hit a record high in Baghdad — the real surprise would be if the government predicted an armistice. A poll released last week by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland found that about 6 in 10 Iraqis approved of attacks on American forces. Tardy investigative reporting is hardly needed to figure out that the insurgency is thriving.
“The insurgents know what they are doing,” Mr. Woodward is to say on CBS, according to an advance excerpt. “They know the level of violence and how effective they are. Who doesn’t know? The American public.”
President George Bush has often stressed that if America wins the hearts and minds of Iraqis, they will stop killing our troops and each other and the country will stabilize. For Bush, that means rooting out Al Qaeda, a strategy that the recently released National Intelligence Estimate dramatically showed isn’t working; the presence of the U.S. in Iraq is recruiting terrorists faster than we can kill them. Perhaps a better way to win over Iraqis would be to (gasp!) listen to what they think we should do and leave. According government and independent polls released this week, more than 70 percent of Iraqis want U.S. troops to quit Iraq within a year, arguing that a pullout would make the country more secure and decrease sectarian violence.
Sorry Anon, the people in Middle eastern countries that like Americans, and that means nearly all of Iranians, who love us, are more rational and reasonable than the lunatics running amok in the streets and burning and killing and blowing each other up. If we have to kill all the enemies of the US in order to support ur friends and allies, the rational intelligent and moderate people of the Middle East, so be it.
KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO's top commander in Afghanistan warned on Sunday that a majority of Afghans would likely switch their allegiance to resurgent Taliban militants if their lives show no visible improvements in the next six months.
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