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Headache upon Headache: We're in, we'll win, but what will we do?

National Review

| April 21, 2003 | GARFINKLE, ADAM | COPYRIGHT 2003 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Wolf Blitzer of CNN recently asked secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld about widespread concern that the war in Iraq would help al-Qaeda recruiting and, in general, increase the likelihood of terrorist attacks against the United States. Rumsfeld's answer was rather alarming. He just barely managed to conceal his contempt for the scribblers and eggheads who have expressed such thoughts, and launched into an energetic argument that it is weakness, not strength, that abets terrorism. His case in point was 9/11 -- which, he veritably thundered, had not required an invasion of Iraq as motivation.

Rumsfeld is at least half right. It is true that Islamist terrorists do ...

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