AntiWar.Com

by Justin Raimondo

07/27/05

Usually, it takes more than a few years for the consequences of our foreign policy to blow back in our faces -- as in Afghanistan, where our errors percolated for a good decade before they finally mutated into what we now know as al-Qaeda, and yesterday were calling the Afghan 'freedom fighters.' By invading Iraq and shattering the Sunni monopoly on state power, we unleashed forces we can neither control nor, in good conscience, support. In this case, however, they are turning on us quickly, and with a vengeance. ... Dwarfing even our apparent inability to defeat the burgeoning insurgency, America's biggest failure is 'liberated' Iraq's growing ties with the government of Iran. This is a policy boomerang of epic proportions...

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