The Columbia Dispatch is reporting that a survey of foreign policy experts is casting doubt on the effectiveness of the war in Iraq. 84% of those surveyed do not believe that we are winning the war on terror. 87% believe that the War in Iraq is hurting the efforts against terrorism.
One participant in the survey, a former CIA official who described himself as a conservative Republican, said the war in Iraq has provided global terrorist groups with a recruiting bonanza, a valuable training ground and a strategic beachhead at the crossroads of the oil-rich Persian Gulf and Turkey, the traditional land bridge linking the Middle East to Europe.
"The war in Iraq broke our back in the war on terror," said the former official, Michael Scheuer, the author of Imperial Hubris, a popular book highly critical of the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism efforts. "It has made everything more difficult and the threat more existential."
The survey was non-scientific, but the results are not surprising.
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