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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (643265)	10/12/2004 7:45:07 PM
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The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies is a polling and policy analysis operation essentially, a think tank relied on by the government and with many former govt people involved. It's technocrats, by and large, and operates out of Tel Aviv University. The reason they say that "The war in Iraq has not damaged international terror groups but instead distracted the United States from confronting other hotbeds of Islamic militancy and actually "created momentum" for many terrorists,"" is because that is their analysis. Their interest is in strategies for effectively fighting terrorism. Their analysis tells them 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."" The overriding interest of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies is in addressing the large question of the survival of the State of Israel. That is their agenda. The report quoted has not yet been posted on their website (they seem to update every three months, and the last update was in August), but you can go to the site and check the tenor of their reports: tau.ac.il So you get a sense of the Center, below is a link to a May 2004 paper by Shlomo Brom, who is quoted in the article I posted: "Shlomo Brom, a retired Israeli army general, said the U.S.-led effort was strategically misdirected. If the goal in the war against terrorism is "not just to kill the mosquitoes but to dry the swamp," he said, "now it's quite clear" that Iraq "is not the swamp." tau.ac.il There are also papers by Shai Feldman at the website that you could check out in your quest to find an "agenda" that will allow you to continue to believe that the invasion of Iraq was a well planned master stroke of foreign policy. Feldman is the analyst who is quoted in the article as saying that the concentration of U.S. intelligence assets in Iraq "has to be at the expense of being able to follow strategic dangers in other parts of the world."