7.10.2005

Experts Predict "Endless" Terror War Under Bush Leadership

I hate being right, yet from the very start, Mr. Bush spelled out a scenario that was impossible to win and guaranteed to go on interminably, costing incredible numbers of lives. All we're doing is creating MORE enemies.

From MSNBC:

New York and Washington. Bali, Riyadh, Istanbul, Madrid. And now London.

When will it end? Where will it all lead?

The experts aren’t encouraged. One prominent terrorism researcher sees the prospect of “endless” war. Adds the man who tracked Osama bin Laden for the CIA, “I don’t think it’s even started yet.”

An Associated Press survey of longtime students of international terrorism finds them ever more convinced, in the aftermath of London’s bloody Thursday, that the world has entered a long siege in a new kind of war. They believe that al-Qaida is mutating into a global insurgency...