It Took A Think Tank ...
and an unnecessary Iraq War to come to the conclusion that such a misadventure would increase the popularity of Al Qaeda, not hinder it. Interestingly, my brother and I were disucssing this same topic in December of 2002, and we came to the same conclusion. Are we psychic, or was this not the most obvious of outcomes? Many others were making similar observations around this time, but it seemed to have fallen on deaf ears. And now that it looks like Bush is working to pass off the future responsibility of running Iraq to an unnamed puppet goverment (enforced by an explicit American military presence), his administration seems to be no shifting responsibility for going to war to the now discredited Chalabi, who they now claim had been passing "misinformation" to the US the entire time. As Iraq slips closer and closer into civil war (a la Vietnam), we now know along with the Ba'athists, Shias, and Kurds, Al Qaeda recruits will be making a pronounced cameo appearance.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Al-Qaeda 'spurred on' by Iraq war
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Tuesday, May 25, 2004
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