http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_al_qaida;_ylt=ArYIUMd0J_BQ0E7nkLjH_jxI2ocA
WASHINGTON - The United States can defeat al-Qaida if it relies less on ***** and more on policing and intelligence to root out the ****** group's leaders, a new study contends.
"Keep in mind that terrorist groups are not eradicated overnight," said the study by the federally funded Rand research center, an organization that counsels the Pentagon.
Its report said that the use of military ***** by the United States or other countries should be reserved for quelling large, well-armed and well-organized insurgencies, and that American officials should stop using the term "war on ******" and replace it with "counterterrorism."
Terrorists should be perceived and described as criminals, not holy warriors, and our analysis suggests there is no battlefield solution to terrorism," said Seth Jones, the lead author of the study and a Rand political scientist.
"The United States has the necessary instruments to defeat al-Qaida, it just needs to shift its strategy," Jones said.
Nearly every ally, including Britain and Australia, has stopped using "war on ******" to describe strategy against the group headed by Osama bin Laden and considered responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 suicide attacks at the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon."
So this govt funded study says treat them like criminals and drop analogy of it as a war.Isn't that exactly what John Kerry said should be our approach?
But I guess "war" is a better propaganda phrase so thats what Bush went with ,too bad a very flawed policy went along with that propaganda.
WASHINGTON - The United States can defeat al-Qaida if it relies less on ***** and more on policing and intelligence to root out the ****** group's leaders, a new study contends.
"Keep in mind that terrorist groups are not eradicated overnight," said the study by the federally funded Rand research center, an organization that counsels the Pentagon.
Its report said that the use of military ***** by the United States or other countries should be reserved for quelling large, well-armed and well-organized insurgencies, and that American officials should stop using the term "war on ******" and replace it with "counterterrorism."
Terrorists should be perceived and described as criminals, not holy warriors, and our analysis suggests there is no battlefield solution to terrorism," said Seth Jones, the lead author of the study and a Rand political scientist.
"The United States has the necessary instruments to defeat al-Qaida, it just needs to shift its strategy," Jones said.
Nearly every ally, including Britain and Australia, has stopped using "war on ******" to describe strategy against the group headed by Osama bin Laden and considered responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 suicide attacks at the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon."
So this govt funded study says treat them like criminals and drop analogy of it as a war.Isn't that exactly what John Kerry said should be our approach?
But I guess "war" is a better propaganda phrase so thats what Bush went with ,too bad a very flawed policy went along with that propaganda.
