Does the Bush Administration want Terrorism to Grow?
As I’ve stated on here before… I’m no hippy, and not a crazed lefty or righty (obviously), but the past few articles I’ve been coming across are suggesting that Bush is failing to stop the cause of creating new terrorists, hence creating new ones.
A NYT article “Waging the War on Terror: Report Belies Optimistic View” pretty much states:
“Three years ago, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld wrote a memo to his colleagues in the Pentagon posing a critical question in the “long war’’ against terrorism: Is Washington’s strategy successfully killing or capturing terrorists faster than new enemies are being created?
Until Tuesday, the government had not publicly issued an authoritative answer. But the newly declassified National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism does exactly that, and it concludes that the administration has failed the Rumsfeld test.” (article)
Now with this report coming to light, as well as the recent write up of the BBC article I posted yesterday concerning Bush’s failure to continue to work with Iran, Bush’s approach is obviously WRONG!
Smart people (as I believe the entire administration is very smart) don’t allow stupid things to happen unless they want them to happen. The failures of the administration were done by choice… ie Choosing not to work w/Iran after the Afgan fight; Choosing to invade Iraq and control the region through strength (however gaining that strength was outside of their control); maintaining a instability in the region.
I get the sense that the administration is allowing the other side to beef up.
