A 2006 National Intelligence Estimate, a report of the consensus views of all intelligence agencies, said flatly that the Iraq War undermines the war on terror.
Faced by the threat of a civil war that would undermine the war effort, the military high command preferred to abandon Nicholas II in the hope that the Duma leaders would contain the revolution and provide effective leadership of the domestic front.
This search for the missing link masks a strategic blunder that allows a diversionary war of choice to undermine the war of necessity against Al Qaeda.
In 2002, when Bush Junior was ramping up to his war against Saddam, Al Gore made a speech trying to slow down that war resolution, pointing out that pivoting from Osama to Saddam for no reason, initiating "pre-emptive" war, and blowing off our allies would undermine the war on terror.
Powell, meanwhile, kept calling to tell Singh, "Please don't undermine our war in Afghanistan".
Other political figures say it could also undermine the war effort if Americans become disengaged.
This is the kind of rigid, conformist thinking that will undermine our war effort.
Finally, attacking Iraq would undermine the war on terrorism, diverting manpower, money and attention from the fight against Al Qaeda.
In addition, the long-term budget deficits that this president is producing may undermine the war on terror by forcing cuts in military spending and foreign-aid.
But Representative Tom Davis of Virginia, the senior Republican on the committee, dismissed the three-hour hearing as a partisan effort to undermine the war.
