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Has the war in Iraq increased jihadist terrorism? The Bush administration has offered two responses: First, the moths-to-aflame argument, which says that Iraq draws terrorists who would otherwise "be plotting and killing Americans across the world and within our own borders," as President Bush put it in 2005. Second, the hard-to-say posit

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As an immigrant to this country, I tend to see things in a more global perspective. I am appalled at how polarized society has become ...

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Virginia
March 9, 2007, 8:01 p.m.
From the article: "Iraq has increased the popularity of a hardcore takfiri ideology so intolerant that, unlikely as it seems, it makes Osama bin Laden appear relatively moderate." The true consequence of invading Iraq is not what is happening there to our troops now but what will no doubt happen to our homeland in the future. We have made these people really mad and stirred up a hornets' nest.
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endtyranny
March 10, 2007, 8:44 a.m.
This war has done irreparable damage to our national security. I heard on the news that terrorism is up seven fold because of Iraq.