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Feeling Safer??Posted by Victoria Bresee, 2/17/05 at 7:52:28 AM.
"The insurgency in Iraq continues to baffle the U.S. military and intelligence communities," Evidently they really did believe that they would be respected and appreciated for all they have done in Iraq. While Rumsfield said that "he has trouble believing any of the estimates of the number of insurgents because it is so difficult to track them," others see that their ability to be invisible is precisely why they can morph. With the Internet and cell phones, they don't need a stationary bombable headquarters and can be virtual. In October a Frenchman was killed fighting the U.S. in Iraq, in what French officials fear is a growing movement of European Muslims to fight in what "they regard as a new holy war" (NYT, 10/22/2004). In a report released in January by the CIA director's think tank, Iraq was called a "magnet for international terrorist activity." (Washington Post, 1/14/2005). While Bush still seems to have faith that we are promoting hope and the love of democracy in the Middle East, others can see that the chaos of war has created a haven and training ground to further terrorism, and yesterday top U.S. national security officals reported to Congress that the "War Helps Recruit Terrorists." The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Vice Adm. Jacoby, reported that "our policies in the Middle East fuel Islamic resentment," and that "overwhelming majorities in Morocco, Jordan and Saudi Arabia believe the U.S. has a negative policy toward the Arab world." Do you feel safer because the growing number of people that hate America are also becoming more difficult to track?
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