JID subscribers are unlikely to be in any doubt about our assessment of the Iraq campaign. It has long been our view that the available intelligence did not provide a justification for military intervention by the USA and its allies, no matter how appalling Saddam Hussein may have been as a leader.
Our main concern, however, was that the invasion of Iraq was a dangerous distraction from the very real threat posed by international terrorists, particularly Al-Qaeda and its network.
The recent damning assessment of the global war against terrorism prepared under the auspices of the US Army War College by Dr Jeffrey Record makes for sobering reading. His assessment of the current strategy being pursued by Washington leaves little room for doubt that not only is the global war on terrorism failing in its key objectives, but that the invasion of Iraq is further undermining the USA's homeland security...
