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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 ...