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A snippet from yesterdays’ DailyReckoning email.

“Study Criticizes ‘War on Terror’; Calls for Law-Enforcement Approach

“The publication of ‘How Terrorist Groups End’ – a thorough new report by RAND, a think-tank with historic ties to the U.S. military – vindicates critics of the ‘global war on terror’ who have argued that a law-enforcement approach to fighting al-Qaeda, rather than a military war, with all the bluntness that wars entail, would have been better for protecting Americans. ‘The report concluded that the administration’s war on terrorism has not significantly degraded al-Qaeda and that the group has morphed into a more formidable enemy,’ writes Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and director of the Center on Peace & Liberty.”

I haven’t had this blog long enough to say much about this - at least much that’s relevent to the news of the day - but I’ve been arguing this point since 2001.   Especially since the beginning of 2003 when Bush was intent on settling his family fued by taking out Saddam - ummm - I mean “regime change”.

You can download a PDF of the full report here.

We could keep all the hugely wastefull spending programs intact AND balance the budget if we’d simply stop this nonsense and bring all of our troops home.  By “all of our troops” I also mean the ones in Korea, Japan, England (why in hell are we paying to keep troops based in England anyway?), Germany, Italy - and Iraq.  I don’t think we’ve ever wasted this much money in such a short period of time.

gk

Tags: al-Qaeda, Bush is an idiot, RAND, Saddam, War on Terror

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