AP - Oct 11, 2004 - The war in Iraq did not damage international terror groups, but instead distracted the United States from confronting other hotbeds of Islamic militancy and actually "created momentum" for many terrorists, a top Israeli security think tank said in a report released Monday...
...the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University said that instead of striking a blow against Islamic extremists, the Iraq war "has created momentum for many terrorist elements, but chiefly al-Qaida and its affiliates."...
Shlomo Brom, a retired Israeli army general, said the U.S.-led effort was strategically misdirected...
..."On a strategic level as well as an operational level," Brom concluded, "the war in Iraq is hurting the war on international terrorism."
For some expansion on this topic, see what the Cato Institute published...
TWO YEARS AGO, DAMMIT!
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