US may shift terror policies, report says

[steve2470]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/29/content_3018370.htm

WASHINGTON, May 29 (Xinhuanet) -- The US administration has launched a high-level internal review of its efforts to battle international terrorism, and the review might move a policy stressing efforts to capture and kill al Qaida leaders toward a broader "strategy against violent extremism," The Washington Post reported Sunday.

The shift is meant to recognize the transformation of al Qaida over the past three years into a far more amorphous, diffuse and difficult-to-target organization than the group that struck the United States in 2001, the report said.

President George W. Bush's top adviser on terrorism, Frances Fragos Townsend, told the newspaper that the review is needed to take into account the "ripple effect" from years of operations targeting al Qaida leaders.

The review marks the first ambitious effort since the immediateaftermath of the 2001 attacks to take stock of what the administration has called the "global war on terrorism" but is nowconsidering changing to recognize the evolution of its fight.




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[mike_c]

1. oops, folks are losing interest in perpetual war...

...what with all the runaway brides, celebrity trials, and other important stuff-- better start some new brushfires!

[gristy]

2. What, no more "fight them over there so we don't have to over here"?

Wha happened? Dumbasses.

[jimshoes]

3. Creating another reality...

"We're an empire now,
and when we act, we create our own reality" attributed to some chimp flunky who was too chickenshit to give Ron Suskind permission to print his name.