""For instance, there's the dispiriting
fact that the two countries where the United States launched wars in the name of
fighting terrorism early in the last decade went on to account for more than one
third of terrorist incidents during this period. More than a third of all
victims between 2002 and 2011 were Iraqi and the biggest global rise in
terrorism occurred between 2005 and 2007, which the authors attribute primarily
to events in Iraq.""