By narrowly focusing on terrorism, Bush has clouded a much larger problem, the large anti- U.S. occupation movement in Iraq and the roughly 18,000 Iraqis who are not al-Qaeda members but are arming themselves to fight U.S. occupying forces.
Today Iraq is entirely transformed. The country lacks both safety and security and suffers from daily kidnappings, frequent car bombings, and other violent attacks. And with porous borders and poor intelligence gathering U.S. efforts to truly secure Iraq have fairly come in to question. In 2005 there were 841 car bombs and an average of 70 attacks per day on U.S. forces.
Another mistake is also being made, equating all attacks in Iraq as acts of terrorism. By narrowly focusing on terrorism, Bush has clouded a much larger problem, the large anti- U.S. occupation movement in Iraq and the roughly 18,000 Iraqis who are not al-Qaeda members but are arming themselves to fight U.S. occupying forces. Nationalist Iraqis fighting to throw out American forces have been lumped together with the terrorists with those whose jihadist aims are quite different from those fighting occupation of their country.
The United States was able to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein.
There was not enough man power to resolve the issues created by the military campaign.
The Internet is used most frequently as a communication device, and private Web pages are the most common form of usage for terrorists.
Censorship, regulation, and gathering data from communication threaten the basis of democracy.
Some researchers are of the belief that the contagion effect might be used to counter terrorism.