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August 23, 2007 at 06:42:32 Permalink
Foreign policy experts say the U.S. is losing the "war on terror"

Diary Entry by Mary Shaw (about the author)

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I've been saying it for years: Bush's cowboy approach to the "war on terror" is doing more harm than good. Waging a war of aggression against an unarmed nation that posed no threat to us. Arbitrarily labeling people as "enemy combatants" and then locking them up forever without charge and with no legal recourse. Spying on Americans here in the U.S. without having to get a court warrant to certify due cause. Torturing people. And so on. George W. Bush keeps telling us that he has to do these things in order to keep us safe. But, ironically, his tactics are making us much less safe. My opinion is merely my opinion. However, a group of distinguished foreign policy experts appear to agree. From yesterday's Christian Science Monitor:

The US is losing the war on terror. That's the assessment of the nation's top foreign-policy, intelligence, and national-security leaders from across the ideological spectrum. In this year's Terrorism Index, a survey released Monday by Foreign Policy magazine, 84 percent of these experts believe the nation is losing the war on terror, while more than 90 percent say the world is growing more dangerous for Americans. That's prompted a variety of leaders to call for a complete rethinking of the nation's strategy. And some are looking back to the cold war's battle against communism to find models for the ideological struggle against terrorism.

>> Read the full article. Yes, we need to rethink the nation's strategy. But all the rethinking in the world is not going to change Bush's mind. As of this writing, we're stuck with him for another 1 year, 5 months, and 1 day. That's enough time for him to do a lot more damage. And I'm not optimistic that Congress will start doing their job any time soon. God bless America. Have a nice day. -----

Mary Shaw is a Philadelphia-based writer and activist, with a focus on politics, human rights, and social justice. She is a former Philadelphia Area Coordinator for the Nobel-Prize-winning human rights group Amnesty International, and her views (more...)

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