I wonder how they'll ignore this warning

The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, a think tank at Tel Aviv University, says what many of us already know about the War on Terrorism.

The war in Iraq did not damage international terror groups, but instead distracted the United States from confronting other hotbeds of Islamic militancy and actually "created momentum" for many terrorists, a top Israeli security think tank said in a report released Monday...

But the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University said that instead of striking a blow against Islamic extremists, the Iraq war "has created momentum for many terrorist elements, but chiefly al-Qaida and its affiliates."

Jaffee Center director Shai Feldman said the vast amount of money and effort the United States has poured into Iraq has deflected attention and assets from other centers of terrorism, such as Afghanistan.

Let me add that our war in Iraq has likely placed the country in a climate similar to that of Afghanistan in 1996, which fostered the unhindered growth of terrorist organizations.

For anyone questioning the motives and partisanship of the Jaffee Center, they've also said that leading a strike on Iran right now would set back their nuclear program. I'm not too familiar with this group, but from my initial impression of them, they don't appear to be peaceniks.