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Sun 29 May, 2005 09:53 am
Review May Shift Terror Policies
U.S. Is Expected to Look Beyond Al Qaeda
By Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 29, 2005; Page A01
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The Bush administration has launched a high-level internal review of its efforts to battle international terrorism, aimed at moving away from a policy that has stressed efforts to capture and kill al Qaeda leaders since Sept. 11, 2001, and toward what a senior official called a broader "strategy against violent extremism."
The shift is meant to recognize the transformation of al Qaeda over the past three years into a far more amorphous, diffuse and difficult-to-target organization than the group that struck the United States in 2001. But critics say the policy review comes only after months of delay and lost opportunities while the administration left key counterterrorism jobs unfilled and argued internally over how best to confront the rapid spread of the pro-al Qaeda global Islamic jihad.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/28/AR2005052801171.html?referrer=email&referrer=email
My God there is someone awake in this administration. I hope they also realize that they are responsible for the spread of the cancer as a consequence of the invasion of Iraq.
Yeah Au - wouldn't that be novel. Self-examination and enlightenment, accountability and responsible action. If even one of those concepts ever occurred to our government as a possibility and spur for further action (or, and I hate to say it, but it needs to be acknowledged, the majority of people in America), we might actually see terrorist activity and resentment against America lessening somewhat. Oh well, one can always dream....
It hasn't just been this administration that puts on blinders, and continues with policies that aren't having the desired results. Just look at four years of trench warfare (when after just the first few months anyone with half a brain should have realized they were needlessly throwing lives away), or all those years of Viet Nam.
Yes - it definitely seems to be an unfortunate pattern. But you'd think with all of the extremely negative reinforcement we've received in the past, we'd try to find different, more positive ways of behaving that would garner a more positive outcome. Even pigeons, rats and dogs have been able to figure it out.
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