[A. Pole]

Unless you really believe that we wouldn't have had any more attacks on our home ground even if the Administration didn't spend any money or effort? In that case, you can stop cancer research too because it's just as likely to go away by itself.

But Iraqi regime was dominated by the secularists who did not like Islamists. Now Islamists can come to the Iraq easier. (BTW, as a side effect Russians have less of them in Chechnya.)

If you want to do cancer research you need to have some idea what might be causing it. Otherwise your money will be wasted.

[rmlew]

Syria is a Baathist regime that killed 20000 Syrians to quel and Islamist riot in Hama.
That does not stop them from working with Iran, Hizbullah, and Hamas.