U.S. losing war on terror, says new report

whskyfan · Post by **whskyfan** » 09-06-2007 08:35 PM

Maybe it's the way it has been fought that is causing the problem...

U.S. losing war on terror, says new report

Published: Sept. 6, 2007 at 6:38 PM

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- The United States is losing the war on terror it declared in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, a new report by a panel of experts says.

The report, “Are We Winning? Measuring Progress in the Struggle Against Violent Jihadism,” was released Wednesday by the bipartisan American Security Project, a non-profit founded by former Democratic Sen. Gary Hart.

In a statement, the group said the report "is the first to examine together the component pieces of the struggle against Islamist terrorism and to produce a series of metrics of success that are both as objective as possible and reproducible on an annual basis."

Authored by one of the group's senior fellows, Bernard Finel, the report uses 10 criteria to measure progress in the war on terror, evaluating each as positive, ambiguous or negative; and then ranks them in order of importance.

"The results paint a decidedly bleak picture," says the group in a statement. Negative and ambiguous trends outweigh positive ones in both number and their level of relative importance. Among the 10 metrics, five are assessed as negative, three are ambiguous and two show some progress. But among the top five indicators, three were negative, one ambiguous and one positive.

“A significant upward trend in the number of terrorist incidents worldwide, even excluding attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan and those related to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, combined with a change in the nature of those attacks, is the single most ominous indicator of the grave challenge facing the United States and its allies,” said Finel.

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joequinn · Post by **joequinn** » 09-06-2007 08:49 PM

How can you lose a war that never was anything but a fraud in the first place? The war on terror (against Osama Bin Laden) has been a dismal failure, but the war of terror (against the Amerikan people) has been a brilliant success.

Psychicwolf · Post by **Psychicwolf** » 09-06-2007 09:01 PM

And here it is in black and white:
Outside View: A Sept. rollout for Iran war

Published: Sept. 5, 2007 at 12:44 PM

By DAVID ISENBERG
UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card once famously said of the administration’s 2002 campaign to get support for the invasion of Iraq, ''From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.''

Now August is behind us, and -- right on schedule -- marketers both in the White House and among their supporters outside are rolling out their newest product, a public relations blitz urging a U.S. military adventure in Iran.

Consider the recent speech by President Bush to the American Legion. In it he said, “Iran's active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust.

“Iran's actions threaten the security of nations everywhere. And that is why the United States is rallying friends and allies around the world to isolate the regime, to impose economic sanctions.

“We will confront this danger before it is too late,” he concluded.
http://www.upi.com/International_Securi ... _war/3651/
They even use corporate terms blatantly now.
P/R...Marketing a war!:eek: