Report: Decade-old War on Terror a “Stalemate”
Source: NY Daily News, 5/26/2011
ASP’s Are Winning Report? for 2010 is featured.
By Joseph Straw
A D.C. security thinktank has followed up Osama Bin Laden’s killing with a downer of a report on the U.S.-led fight against terror 10 years after 9/11.
The civilized world isn’t losing in its struggle against Al Qaeda and its allies, but it isn’t winning, either, according to the annual “Are We Winning?” report from the American Security Project.
“Regardless of the news headlines, the reality is that there is only one word to describe the ‘war on terror’ based on empirical data: stalemate,” wrote author Bernard I. Finel.
“Indeed, more than ever it is becoming clear that the best the United States can achieve is to reduce the threat of terrorism to a persistent nuisance that we accept as a fact of life,” the report states.
It cites pluses: evisceration of Core Al Qaeda leadership by Navy SEALs and CIA Predator drones alike, and improved international cooperation in counterterrorism…
