It's all about Pakistan now

[kj]

Grace62 wrote:
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>>I have also never claimed that Bush's foreign policy was responsible for the Kashmir incident.

You actually did by posting an article that supposedly supported your claims. You've got the rest wrong, but not because I wrote it incorrectly, but because you read it incorrectly. kj.

The "claim," which you questioned, was whether or not the number of incidents of international terrorism increased or decreased post-9/11. You questioned that, and I posted something showing that the number went up.
As for the rest, if you want to explain yourself further, go ahead.
We're always to happy to clear up misunderstandings.
If you look back, the number that went up after Bush's response included events like the Kashmir incident, etc. , that to my knowledge had nothing to do with his foreign policy. It didn't support your assertion, at all, unless you can show he had some hand in causing them. kj.
I obviously never said that Bush policy led directly to every post-9/11 terror event, as you want to imply. The context is that Bush policy did not make the world safer, as he claimed repeatedly during the 2004 campaign, and as was shown conclusively by the explosion of terror events in the middle east following our invasion of Iraq.
This is what you said: "The short term impact of Bush's foreign policy was that terror attacks increased all over the world."

You're saying something different now. You did not back up the statement I took issue with. The numbers of terrorist events that increased, and you referenced, were in fact world wide, but had nothing to do with Bush's policies, as far as I know. kj.