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June 26, 2008
The weak horse
Carter Andress offers a view from Baghdad's downtown Red Zone. I have yet to read the Canadian Institute's analysis but I expect Olivia Chow's heroic mediation also had a part to play on influencing Pakistani public opinion.
The impact of the Iraq mission on world security is also dramatic and counter to what is commonly heard in the media and academic elites. The Iraq conflict has drawn fanatical Islamists to fight nearer to home, and as a just-released Canadian institute’s study details, overall international terrorism fatalities — outside of the Iraq war — have plunged by 40 percent since 2001. The Simon Fraser University Human Security Brief records that, due to “the humiliating recent defeats experienced by Al Qaeda in Iraq,” popular support in the Islamic world for the perpetrators of 9/11 has fallen off precipitously. For example, in Pakistan (where al-Qaeda is arguably most deeply entrenched): “support for Osama bin Laden has dropped from 70 percent in August 2007 to 4 percent in January 2008.”
Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 26, 2008 06:43 AM
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