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Originally Posted by directfiesta
LOL ... would have been smarter to plant undercovers in Iran, and get Iran to invade Iraq ....
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They already used a variation of that idea...
Interesting stats from the
National Counterterrorism Center [other docs available]:
Iraq 2002: 14 "significant" terrorist events
Iraq Jan-Jun 2005: 883 "significant" terrorist events
Almost 70% of the events recorded by the NCC in the first half of this year took place in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and Israel. In 2004, the Indian sub-continent, Columbia, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia accounted for most of the rest, although 20-some other countries each suffered 1-2 attacks. Outside Israel/Palestine and Aghanistan/Iraq, almost every attack was the responsibility of domestic groups having long-standing quarrels with their governments going back many years.
And apart from in Columbia and the Philippines, where the US has been providing assistance since long before anyone thought about a "War on Terror", the US isn't involved.
In other words, despite the rhetoric coming out of the White House, most of the terrorism in the world would more accurately be described as a reaction to war or occupation (much of it a direct consequence of our own actions) and apparently we aren't too concerned about the rest.