New Assessment: Iraq War Makes U.S. Less Safe
The American intelligence community has concluded in the latest assessement that the U.S. is less safe as a result of our invasion and occupation of Iraq. The concept of Jihad is spreading around the world. As American makes more and more people angry, they are joining our enemies. Hatred of American is becoming pandemic. This assessment makes it clear that the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afganistan has made the situation much worse than it was before Sept. 11th.
The classified 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.
An opening section of the report, “Indicators of the Spread of the Global Jihadist Movement,” cites the Iraq war as a reason for the diffusion of jihad ideology.
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