Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (New York Times) — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday by the House Intelligence Committee, according to several officials in Washington involved in preparing the assessment or who have read the final document.
The intelligence estimate, completed in April, is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by United States intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began, and represents a consensus view of the 16 disparate spy services inside government. Titled “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States,’’ it asserts that Islamic radicalism, rather than being in retreat, has metastasized and spread across the globe.
2006-09-24 13:57:20 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
why do people believe everything they read in a newspaper? i am a career firefighter, and i have seen the media in action. get off work and read the newspaper...it is hilarious!
the new york times is no different, all they want is your 75 cent purchase price. please come back to reality!
2006-09-24 14:10:05 · answer #1 · answered by lc_firefighter 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. The invasion of Iraq has made us much more at risk of terrorism. It has increased world wide terrorism many times.
If we had stayed the course in Afghanistan, we would have captured Osama and terrorism would have been reduced. The attack and occupation of Iraq allowed Osama to remain free and Afghanistan is still in a struggle with the other side.
What can we do now??? Is there a strategy for recovery???We may have missed our chance by electing Bush!
An army can fight an army or destroy a country, but is only a target for terrorism. The best defense against terrorist is people organized in neighborhood watches all over the world to identify the terrorist and report them to the police.
2006-09-24 21:00:52 · answer #2 · answered by Pey 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
we are safer, but alas, that is what is also making us weaker. As the left tears away at our administration in the hopes of coming into power the enemy is still out there. I hope enough "sane" Americans remember this and vote in Nov. 2006 and 2008.
It is strange how the left forgets that they grew bold and stronger under Clinton ....and struck here. The may be gaining support and strength in the middle east, but we are no longer sitting back and waiting for them to come to us. we are meeting them on the battlefield and are killing them.
2006-09-24 21:11:53 · answer #3 · answered by thomkirby 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So they got exactly what they wanted, another step closer to pursuing a Christian/Islam war that leads to permanent US puppet governments in Iraq and Iran, winner takes 50 years worth of Cheap oil and control of the oil market.
2006-09-24 21:10:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Just as Liberals like Chuck Schumner, Hillary Clinton and Elliot Spitzer, Ted Kennedy and such rabid fools don't try to disarm the American people we will be safe.
BTW, when was the last time the United States was attacked?
2006-09-24 20:59:38 · answer #5 · answered by Eldude 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
If we where ever in real serious danger, don't you think alot more would have happened here before 9/11? Before the patriot act and things of that nature. nothing but a bunch of fear mongers! we are probably in more trouble abroad than we where before we took it all out on Iraq. But no less I think here than we were before the events of 9/11.
2006-09-24 21:08:35 · answer #6 · answered by oderus138 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We are heading into a world of disasters created by the war in Iraq. If a normal thinking person cannot see that now, then too bad for everyone.......
2006-09-24 21:08:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
not by a long shot
no matter how it's spun
GW and his neocons have sailed this country into shipwreck on the rocks
where we could have been united, now we are divided and in perpetual wars
only winners: stockholders in companies with war goods for more wars and the corporations that push for the 'war on terror' that hurts us all
now we don't have anyone we trust neighbors all afraid to talk to each other and afraid of the very thing that made the US strong: diversity
2006-09-24 21:03:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
We would be safer if everyone brushed up on their Bruce Lee moves. The air hostesses did and look how safer flights are now.
2006-09-24 21:14:32 · answer #9 · answered by Got pretzels? 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As you state in your article, National Intelligence groups state that the US not only is not safer, but in fact, the war in Iraq has created more terrorists than eliminated.
We will only eliminate terrorists when we eliminate the problems that cause them to want to be terrorists in the first place....poverty, oppression, hunger, etc.
Know any fat, wealthy free terrorists?
2006-09-24 21:07:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋