Katz, Mark N.2010-08-302010-08-302006-09-29https://hdl.handle.net/1920/5913© 2006 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Deposited with permission from UPI.com.As has been much discussed in the news recently, a National Intelligence Estimate (which President George W. Bush has partly declassified) has concluded that the American presence in Iraq has served not to diminish or even contain Islamic radicalism, but to increase it instead. Those responsible for sending American forces to Iraq certainly did not intend for this to happen. Indeed, they thought that American intervention in Iraq would go a long way toward defeating Islamic radicalism. What went wrong?en-USInternational affairsIraq War, 2003-2010Article