Simple answers

The New York Times takes time out of its regularly scheduled bashing of John Edwards to think about the "war on terra" and to wonder if the war in Iraq has made us safer:

WASHINGTON, July 17 — Nearly six years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives expended in the name of the war on terror pose a single, insistent question: Are we safer?

On Tuesday, in a dark and strikingly candid two pages, the nation’s intelligence agencies offered an implicit answer, and it was not encouraging. In many respects, the National Intelligence Estimate suggests, the threat of terrorist violence against the United States is growing worse, fueled by the Iraq war and spreading Islamic extremism.

In other words, no.

And yes, this has been another edition of simple answers to stupid fucking questions.

Link here: Same People, Same Threat

BTW, that NIE is enough to make even an old cynic like me weep in frustration. What a fucking travesty.