US war on Iraq and al Qaeda

It took Rand ten years to come out with the long known and very obvious?
US war on Iraq didn’t weaken Al Qaeda: Rand

July 26, 2011 - The influential Washington-based think tank Rand Corporation says the war on terror has run off track since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and despite some successes could use some redirecting now.

Missteps include failing to negotiate with the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, and launching the Iraq war, which did little to weaken Al Qaeda, the authors say in a book released Tuesday. read more>>>