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To: Elroy who wrote (36712)	4/23/2007 4:41:58 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541936

Elroy - I certainly don't buy the Bush line that Iraq is the central front in the misnamed War on Terror. Consequently, I don't think the threat is from the situation in Iraq directly. Rather, I believe that what the Bush Administration has done in Iraq has created new enemies throughout the Islamic world, radicalizing many who previously were more moderate in their views. Thus the threat of terrorist attacks directed against Americans at home and abroad is greater now than before. Note that I emphatically do NOT believe that terrorist threats should cause us to defeat ourselves, and to give up the very freedoms we claim to hold dear. In large part, the way the current administration is dealing with the threat is a good example of exactly how not to do it. By the way, do you really believe that a Middle East engulfed in chaos would pose no threat to the US? Do you suppose we would not become embroiled in the conflict somehow? - Allen