War

The failure of interventionism on all fronts.

"The ideological rationale for the Iraq war – that we would “drain the swamp” of Arab stagnation and therefore eliminate the sources of Islamist radicalism – turns out to have been imported straight from Bizarro World, where everything is stood on its head. Instead of neutralizing the factors that made bin Laden a hero to much of the Muslim world, the conquest and occupation of Iraq created a base for Al Qaeda that had never existed previously (despite the Bush administration’s quite effective effort to link Saddam Hussein in the public mind to the 9/11 attacks).
The political rationale for the Iraq and Afghan wars is another example of Bizarro World “logic” in action. All those years after we were told “we’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here,” two terrorists succeeded in shutting down a major American city, murdering 3 and injuring more than 260. Will we now invade Chechnya, Dagestan, and the other ‘stans in a futile crusade to deprive “the terrorists” of safe havens?"

The wars are obviously making the world more dangerous and us less safe.

Attacks kill 116, wound 240 in Iraq.