On 3/19/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 19 Mar 2006 at 17:45, Doug Pensinger wrote: > > > Is it just me or does anyone else see that the major reason there is an > > insurgency in Iraq is our (the U.S.) pressence? Everyone seems to agree > > that Al Qaida is provoking the sectarian violence, and that they > consider > > the U.S., not Iraq, their enemy. If we leave, they loose most of their > > purpose there and maybe the insurgency goes away. > > Sure. Because then they'll come to America. And England. And other > western counties.
Are you saying that people would would otherwise be committing terrorism in the west are not doing so because we're keeping them busy in Iraq? That there are people who are thinking something like this: "I could go bomb New York, but why bother when I can bomb in Iraq?" That terrorism in Iraq is more attractive than terrorism in the West? That we are distracting terrorists away from the west? That potential terrorists are somehow satisfied with what's going on in Iraq, so they're saying among themselves, "We don't need to do anything in the west now?" It seems far more reasonable to me to believe that we have pissed off a whole lot of people with our invasion, who are now far more likely to commit terrorist acts in the west, given any opportunity. I don't feel safer. Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages: 408-904-7198 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
