Quote Originally Posted by Ken White View Post
quite strongly that the numbers and resolve might well have increased at the same or even at a greater level had we not entered Iraq.
Well, the difference is that we know for sure that all of the numbers went up: recruitment, terrorist acts, number of cells operating in other countries - post-2003 invasion. Since that's a known fact, and the alternative that you expressed is a hypothetical, it would seem prudent to at least examine that increase as a variable in any analysis of our military strategy.