US-British War on Terror Backfires: Think Tank

[babylonsister]

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/11/466/

US-British War on Terror Backfires: Think Tank
by Agence France Presse staff

The US-led and British-backed war on terror is only fuelling more violence by focusing on military solutions rather than on root causes, a think tank warned Wednesday.”The ‘war on terror’ is failing and actually increasing the likelihood of more terrorist attacks,” the Oxford Research Group said in its study, titled “Beyond Terror: The Truth About The Real Threats To Our World.”

It said Britain and the United States have used military might to try to “keep the lid on” problems rather than trying to uproot the causes of terrorism.0411 05 1

It said such an approach, particularly the 2003 invasion of Iraq, had actually heightened the risk of further terrorist atrocities on the scale of September 11, 2001.

“Treating Iraq as part of the war on terror only spawned new terror in the region and created a combat training zone for jihadists,” the report’s authors argued.

It pointed out that the Islamist Taliban movement is now resurgent, six years after it was overthrown in 2001 by the US-led invasion in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

“Sustainable approaches” to fighting terrorism would involve the withdrawal of US-led forces from Iraq and their replacement with a United Nations stabilisation force, it said.

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[whosinpower]

1. Duh

The war on terror, as it has been put into play is doing exactly what it was intended to do. Create a neverending war. There NEVER was a plan to end it, or have it stop. And you need a persistant "enemy" to have this. It is precisely what the powermongers want.

JMHO.