War on terror called failure

War on terror called failure
by Lynda Hurst

Toronto Star, June 15, 2006

Washington is failing to make progress in the global war on terror and the next 9/11-style attack is not a question of if, but when. That is the scathing conclusion of a survey of 100 leading American foreign-policy analysts.

In its first "Terrorism Index," released yesterday, the influential journal Foreign Affairs found surprising consensus among the bipartisan experts.

Some 86 per cent of them said the world has grown more, not less, dangerous, despite President George W. Bush's claims that the U.S. is winning the war on terror.

The main reasons for the decline in security, they said, were the war in Iraq, the detention of terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay, U.S. policy towards Iran and U.S. energy policy.

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What gets me is that all four reasons given for the failure of the "War On Terror" are traceable directly to - who else? - Vice President Dick Cheney.

Good job, Dick.

If all this makes Bechtel more money, he's OK with it.
Vice President of Bechtel should be his title.

Once again, the experts are not in agreement with the Bush Administration. What a surprise!

an American one. I wonder if they will pick up this story?

Then why Cheney's stock option keep going up?

You must be kidding.

Where there is enlightenment there is hope.

This is the only way The War on Terror can justify itself.