Experts Report Iraq War Worsening US Security

[Barrett808]

Source: Iraq Slogger

Experts Report Iraq War Worsening US Security
Foreign Policy/CAP Terrorism Index Surveyed 100 Top US Experts

The world is becoming a more dangerous place for Americans and the United States, with the war in Iraq playing a key role in worsening prospects for US national security, according to a majority of the experts surveyed for Foreign Policy and the Center for American Progress's Terrorism Index.

For the third installment of the Index, Foreign Policy and CAP selected 100 experts from all political persuasions, with 80 percent of the participants hailing from former government service—including more than half in the Executive Branch, 32 percent in the military, and 21 percent in the intelligence community. A selection of results from the Index appear below.

--Fully 91 percent say the world is becoming more dangerous for Americans and the United States, up 10 percentage points since February.

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--Ninety-one percent of the index’s experts said the war in Iraq negatively affects U.S. national security, an increase of 5 percentage points from a year ago. Negative perceptions of the war in Iraq are shared across the political spectrum, with 84 percent of those who describe themselves as conservative taking a dim view of the war’s impact.

--More than half say the surge is having a negative impact on U.S. national security, up 22 percentage points from just six months ago. This sentiment was shared across party lines, with 64 percent of conservative experts saying the surge is having either a negative impact or no impact at all.

--Sixty-eight percent favor redeploying U.S. forces from Iraq during the next 18 months. One in 5, including 25 percent of conservatives, now favor an immediate withdrawal.

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[tanyev]

1. Whoopsie.

Looks like our fighting over there is increasing our chances that we will be fighting them here.

[habitual]

2. Someone Tell Bush there are a few laws he can't break

like the 'law of large numbers'

i'm sure he wishes he were above that law. But he has increased the size of the population that wants to hurt us to a very large number and now, we'll have to be fighting some of them over here because we went to fight them over there. Once again, Bush totally screws up anything he touches and calls black white.

[niceypoo]

3. Nothing to see here...

...just move along now...