"A U.S. troop pullout from Iraq would leave the country as a potent launchpad
for international terrorism and Washington would be forced to go back in within
a couple of years, a leading al Qaeda expert said on Tuesday.Rohan Gunaratna
told a security conference at Lloyd’s of London insurance market that Iraq, like
Afghanistan in the 1990s, would become a “terrorist Disneyland” where al Qaeda
could build up its strength unchallenged.If U.S., British and other coalition
troops withdrew from Iraq in the next year, he said, “certainly the scale of
attacks that would be mounted inside Iraq, and using Iraq as a launching pad to
strike other Western countries — countries in Europe, North America - would
become such that after two or three years, the U.S. forces will have to go back
to Iraq.”"
I think that this connection to Afghanistan is a good point. When we were involved in that country, we invested a good deal of money and weapons into creating chaos. In Iraq, we are now trying to patch up the chaos that resulted from out actions. If we leave the country in the same state that we left Afghanistan, then we will end up with the same results.
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