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Originally posted by techweenie
So far, the unintended consequences have been the opposite of what (I hope) we intended.
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Al-Qaida thriving despite war on terror - Yard chief
Vikram Dodd
Wednesday April 25, 2007
The Guardian
The head of Scotland Yard's counterterrorism command said yesterday that al-Qaida had survived the six-year long "war on terror" launched by President George Bush and Tony Blair, and its central leadership had retained the ability to order devastating attacks on Britain.
Deputy assistant commissioner Peter Clarke, the national counterterrorism coordinator, warned in a lecture last night that terrorists "have momentum" and were on an "inexorable trend to more ambitious and more destructive attack planning".
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2064947,00.html
Worth it to create a stronger enemy? I don't see how.
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Are you arguing that had the West done nothing after 9/11, that al-Qaida would now be weaker than it was then?