Ed Krayewski on How Iraq Could Become a Terror Threat to the U.S.
One of the arguments deployed for continued U.S. involvement in Iraq is that the rise of jihadist groups like the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the region will lead to more terrorism directed at the United States. "The seeds of 9/11s are being planted all over Iraq and Syria," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned last week. As Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) noted this weekend, the blame for the current instability in the Middle East could be placed on the disastrous Iraq War waged by the U.S. in the last decade. Indeed, U.S. interventions across the wider region have helped Al Qaeda-linked groups like ISIS set up base. Yet, insofar as the terrorist threat to America is real, writes Ed Krayewski, U.S. intervention to date has helped to create the conditions on the ground to incubate such a threat.