The Terrorists-Follow-Us-Home Myth

By Ivan Eland
March 20, 2007

The Bush administration, desperate for justifications to buy a little more time with the American people for its failed adventure in Iraq, markets the idea that if the United States rapidly withdraws from Iraq, the “terrorists will follow us home.”

A closer examination of this assertion—like the rest of the administration’s fear mongering—demonstrates it is baseless.

Read on.