Spain understands what the Army War College understands

[rogerashton]

My, that did drop out of the news! Remember? The 60-page study by Jeffrey Record, published as a research monograph by the Army War College in Carlisle, PA -- the army's in-house strategic think-tank. Here is a paragraph from the introduction:

Of particular concern has been the confl ation of al-Qaeda and
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq as a single, undifferentiated terrorist threat.
This was a strategic error of the fi rst order because it ignored
critical differences between the two in character, threat level, and
susceptibility to U.S. deterrence and military action. The result has
been an unnecessary preventive war of choice against a deterred
Iraq that has created a new front in the Middle East for Islamic
terrorism and diverted attention and resources away from securing
the American homeland against further assault by an undeterrable
al-Qaeda. The war against Iraq was not integral to the GWOT, but
rather a detour from it.

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ssi/pubs/2003/bounding/bounding.pdf

It is worth reading.

If the resources committed to Iraq had instead been spent in removing Al-Qaeda, perhaps the terrorist strike in Madrid would not have happened. Of course, we will never know, but the Spanish have wisely gotten rid of the man who endorsed the error. We need to get rid of the twerp who made it. The spin on Spain is mainly lacking in brain.