The New York Review of Books: Are We Safer?

"President Bush is fond of repeating, 'We are fighting them over there so that we won't have to fight them here at home.' As a slogan, this may be good politics. But as a counterterrorism strategy, it appears to be a disaster. Fighting them 'over there' has since 2003 meant committing over one hundred thousand troops, hundreds of billions of dollars, and thousands of lives to a conflict in Iraq whose only clear connection to the 'war on terror' has been its encouragement of terrorism."