Bush’s endless war:

“Inexperienced in foreign affairs and intoxicated by domestic polls, George W. Bush may have misread the initial U.S. military success in Afghanistan as a blueprint for intervening in guerrilla wars all over the globe. New international polls have found he is fast alienating Muslims and other populations whose support is vital if terrorism is to be curbed.

Bush appears not to understand that a key to any successful counterinsurgency operation is to mix reasonable security measures with winning hearts and minds. Instead, Bush is charting a course of tit-for-tat violence that risks turning the world into a giant version of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

” The Consortium