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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch

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To: portage who wrote (30580)11/2/2003 5:50:35 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
How the war in Iraq undermined the war on terror.
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By Daniel Benjamin*
Slate
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 2:25 PM PT

slate.msn.com

<<...The Bush administration chose its moment of opportunity for confronting Iraq, not radical Islam and terror. So now we are stuck with an Iraq policy, not a foreign policy for dealing with a global challenge—and for a hundred well-known reasons, we cannot afford to let Iraq fail. Rumsfeld asks in his memo whether we are now in a situation in the war on terror in which "the harder we work, the behinder we get?"

The answer is yes...>>
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*Daniel Benjamin, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, was director for counterterrorism on the National Security Council staff. He is the co-author of The Age of Sacred Terror.
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