Ripsnort,
Do you really think that a terrorist network (like the one which caused 9/11) successfully set up and laying dormant in the US would have packed up and gone back to Iraq to shoot a couple of RPGs at M1 Abrams or to blow themselves up along with a couple of GIs when they could have done much worse on your soil?
No terrorist attacks since 9/11 has 3 possible causes IMO:
- there wasn't such a dormant network
- there isn't a dormant network anymore: the feds, NSA and CIA did their job and neutralized them
- they're there, waiting for a better opportunity to wreak havoc because they don't give a crap about Iraq...maybe because SH had nothing to do with AQ?
OTOH, US invasion turned Iraq into a recruiter's paradise for AQ & Co.
Bright move indeed...
And you'll excuse me for not having the time to study your 16k+ posts...RL got in the way
