After Afghanistan and Iraq wars Is the world safer now

After Afghanistan and Iraq wars- Is the world safer now? 11-23-2005 8:30:00 AM GMT

More than two years after war on Iraq was launched, daily bloodshed and plant attacks against the occupying forces, the Iraqi security forces and Iraqi civilians surged and have spread to parts of the country that had been relatively peaceful.

Attacks over the past week have end more than 100 Iraqis and wounded hundreds others.

A sampling of daily media reports produced during the past few weeks shows that those attacks are not just targeting rebels or occupation troops, most of those end in the attacks are innocent civilians, including women and children.

Commenting on the current unrest that has plagued Iraqi cities, an article published recently on NRC- Handelsblad said that bloodshed and violent attacks have become routine. "It hardly matters where these attacks are experienced, whether it's Baghdad where a couple of attacks more or less hardly makes headlines international or Madrid, London or Jordan's capital Amman," the editorial said.

Last week, triple plant attacks targeting luxurious hotels in the Jordanian capital, Amman, claimed the lives of scores of innocent civilians and critically wounding dozens more.

Now "terror" attacks are not just targeting Western societies, they're targeting Arab and Muslim nations- Terror has become the new totalitarianism.

Is this what President Bush's war on terror achieved? Helping terror form just threatening Western societies to swallowing more Arab and Muslim nations?

Is this the protection to the Middle East the war on Iraq achieved?

In August, Bush vowed to continue to fight "terrorism in Iraq", Afghanistan and around the world, "so we don't have to face them here at home.

"The record since we went into Iraq is not one that supports it, if you look it the plantings in Spain and the plantings in the United Kingdom," David Rothkopf of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, said.

Commenting on Jordan plantings, Ivan Eland, a defense policy expert at the Independent Insbreastute in Washington, says they're a new blow to Washington's "war on terror" aimed at making the world safer, U.S. experts averred.

"These attacks show that Bush's 'We're fighting them in Iraq so that we don't have fight them elsewhere' is dubious," he added.

Also Rothkopf ridiculed the American President's buttertion that the United States is fighting in Iraq to defeat global terrorism as "nonsense".

"It's an argument that has been cooked up when all the other arguments failed," he said.

The world doesn't seem a safer place after two major American wars in the region, both said to be aimed at bringing democracy.