The global war on terror is rapidly failing. That’s the message that has for long been circulating. A number of think-tanks in recent months have been publishing various research and reports on this matter and if anyone needs telling, all those reports have negatively marked the America-led war.
So the new study revealed by the British organization Oxford Research Group (ORG) doesn’t necessarily come as much as a surprise as a confirmation of the stark naked truth. And that truth is that the Bush administration has miserable failed in its objective to combat terrorism and has fallen flat on its face in the wake of escalating sectarian violence in Iraq and Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan.
ORG’s report, Alternatives to the War on Terror, suggests that the operation to eradicate terrorism from the planet has boomeranged upon the Bush administration. Instead of progressing in its aim, the policy is actually fuelling al Qaeda and its supporters to come out of their dens and wage jihad. The report states that the fundamental structure of the global war on terror has to be changed to break the terrorist network that has spread to all corners of the world in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
The think-tank does leave some scope for optimism to seep in too. It says that the crackdown on terrorist and al Qaeda can be made a success should more pragmatic ideas be taken into consideration. Policies at all levels need to be changed and more peace talks and negotiations need to held with Islamic militia to decimate the increase of terrorism.
The findings of the report aren’t new and most of the facts have already been underlined before. What the report does is consolidate the belief that the Bush administrative has failed strategically as well as tactically to contain terrorism and is now trapped in its own web.
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