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...terrorism works: In their fear and anger, Spanish voters acquiesced to the terrorists’ demands. Afraid that Spanish support for the war in Iraq fueled the bombing, voters pulled their support of a man who has a history of aggressive, anti-terrorism efforts designed to make Spain safer, only to elect a man who promised to withdraw from Iraq. Immediately following the election, Zapatero announced that Spain’s 1,300 troops would be withdrawn from Iraq unless the occupation was endorsed by the United Nations...
...expense of important domestic programs, and we are currently facing the largest deficit of our generation. The American government’s unilateral efforts and contempt for international law have also distanced the U.S. from the international community. There are no signs that the world is a safer place today than it was a year ago, despite the invasion of Iraq being a part of Bush’s “war on terror.” One of our closest backers going into the war, Spain, recently suffered the most extensive terrorism attack in its history, in which...
This discussion is healthy. If a war on terror must be fought—how it ought to be fought remains to be fully understood. President Bush said in January that the invasion of Iraq had made the world a safer place; Thursday’s bombing, if nothing else, should generate pause. Much work lies ahead...
...That helps explain why George W. Bush was called unbeatable last May even after leading America through a war over which the country anguished. As the anniversary of the Iraq invasion nears, a majority of the American people still trust his leadership, and nearly 70% think the country is safer than it was before Sept. 11. And so John Kerry, as he emerges as the Democrats' presumptive nominee, has no greater mission in the next eight months than to convince them they are wrong...
...What Bush calls "strength and confidence" Kerry calls "hubris and swagger" from the "armchair warriors." Where Bush defends what he did, Kerry attacks how he did it. Bush's rush to war, the Senator argues, never gave diplomacy a chance to accomplish the same goals: far from making us safer, the President's policies have overextended our troops, distracted our attention, diverted resources and damaged the alliances we need to track down terrorists everywhere else. Credit for progress in Libya and Iran belongs to diplomats in Europe, he says, not the saber rattlers in Washington. "How is it possible...