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Originally Posted by Theja
Who is cooperating and giving shelter to these terrorists?
Yes, some foreigners are coming in, but the Saddam loyalists too have turned terrorists, that's what I mean.
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By your logic, you could say that the US, through not maintaining the borders, is cooperating by letting terrorists into the country. That's a counter-productive form of reasoning, however.
Iraq post-invasion was a free-for-all; the natural anarchic response to a lifetime of totalitarian suffering. The invasion planned for winning the war, not winning the peace. The invasion force was not sufficient to rule the country with essentially the same iron fist of the Hussein era, though this time a benevolent iron fist that gradually transitioned to democracy while maintaining order. It was bad planning at worst, and careless at best. Or should that be the other way around?
Blaming "terrorists" is a cop-out, because the terrorists weren't there before, but they're sure there now. If they all "turned terrorist," then you must surely blame the mechanism that caused their turn, and this was the invasion and subsequent disarray (probably more the disarray than the invasion). All roads lead to taking responsibility for your actions. Fortunately,
Condoleeza Rice agrees.