A reader at War and Peace makes an excellent point: if part of the “success” in Iraq is that it has allowed us to fight the “terrorists” on the battlefield of our choosing (the so-called flypaper strategy), then why is the US pressuring neighbor states to secure their borders with Iraq? If our intent is to confront the “terrorists” in Baghdad rather than Boston, shouldn’t we want porous Iraqi borders to facilitate the terrorist’s migration into our trap?