America may be safer because of the procedures in place to stop terrorism attacks like the one that was attempted this week, however, I don't think that safety has anything to do with invading Iraq. If anything, the money spent in Iraq could have been more appropriately spent elsewhere on bringing down cells like the ones in Yemen, and we would be safer still.
Terrorism is neither stronger or weaker than 2001, it is just different, and the focus on Iraq kept our security agencies busy there when they could have been doing better work elsewhere. I think we lost tremendous international respect and diplomatic leverage with the unilateral invasion of Iraq. The invasion of Iraq was a terrible waste of resources, money and most significantly, lives. On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: > > The real questions are these. Is America safer now than it was in 2001? Is > terrorism stronger now or in 2001? Does America and it's allies have more > international respect and diplomatic leverage than it did in 2001? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:330723 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
