Pepe Escobar in The Asia Times

[arisbe]

"Three years after September 11, President George W Bush's crusade is a failure. "War on terror" is a meaningless myth: you can't combat a supple attack machine like al-Qaeda with shock and awe. What should have been a long, meticulous police operation was turned by Bush - instigated by his foreign policy adviser, God - into an illegal, preemptive attack on a nation that had nothing to do with terror.

"This policy has actually increased terror attacks around the world."

Comments

[a1an.livejournal.com]

i dont believe all this liberal stuff & views you keep posting...just so you know...but i'm not about to debate about the issues :)

increased terror attacks? they blame that on Bush? why dont they blame that on the terrorists? anyway, see ya

[winegodeatsyou.livejournal.com]

I said this in 2001, Islamists want a Crusade to topple the secular governments of the Middle East. Remember that Bin Laden's ultimate goal is not the destruction of the US, but a hegemonic Islamic power rivaling the old Ottoman Empire.

[joffridus.livejournal.com]

Well stated.

[ex-prima237.livejournal.com]

I'd gently point out that the Clinton admin did everything the "right"
way and attacks escalated. I'm willing to let the third world take some
lumps and see what happens when they get mad. As Mao said; "Power flows
from the barrel of a gun..."

[peacheater77.livejournal.com]

I agree with the statement, Frank.

Indeed, I think that the Islamic fundamentalists have been wanting exactly the reaction that they got from Bush.

Another observation that I have to make is that we are fighting an enemy that is not as clearly delineated as the other folks that we have fought in previous wars (including ourselves in the Civil War).