For instance, what specifically does it mean to say that the Iraq war has worsened the "terrorism threat"? Presumably, the NIE's authors would admit that this is speculation rather than a statement of fact, since the facts suggest otherwise. Before the Iraq war, the United States suffered a series of terrorist attacks: the bombing and destruction of two American embassies in East Africa in 1998, the terrorist attack on the USS Cole in 2000, and the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Since the Iraq war started, there have not been any successful terrorist attacks against the United States.
Robert Kagan clearly has his head in the sand if he thinks American's are now safer because of Iraq. What country is it now safer for American to travel too. Correct me if I am wrong, during the last Olympic games American's were told to not wear the flag or USA logos and our althetes traveled in nondiscript buses to and from events.
Not only that! The whole state of terrisom has changed from coordinated cells with a central command and control structure to one in which any two or three individuals can plan and launch an attack with the credit going to "terrorist" as a whole. Which only casues others to do the same.
Kagen goes on to make a couple of statments that remind me of a duck on water --while they are one way above water what is going on below is a whole lot different. What is his agenda with the article, parrot the Administraton or created some real crital thinking about our current actions. Besides we are not fighing a war! Since we are not fighting a country. We are fighting a collection of people that for what ever reason they have chosen do not like the United States.
Which with Iraq's pourous borders allows anyone entry to the field of battle thus allow any and all to make contacts with like minded individuals and get combat experience. All the while keeping us from focusing on future efforts on how to go about conducting military operations against unaligned forces which is our greatest threat now and in the future.
As for what will make us safer, how about stop doing preemptive strikes against countries that have not attacked us.
More Leaks, Please Questioning the Iraq Intel Report
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