Bush's Terrorism Policy Failing

I know it's not something any of us want to hear, but Bush's terrorism policy seems to be creating more terrorists. There's not much I can add to the following UPI article from Raw Story:

The measurable progress against al-Qaida is frequently touted: Three-quarters of al-Qaida's pre-Sept. 11 leadership have been killed or captured, according to government estimates, and at least $140 million in bank assets frozen.

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The Rand Corp.'s counterterrorism office has been studying captured al-Qaida literature and speeches over the last year -- the so-called Harmony documents seized in Afghanistan and dating back to the mid-1980s -- and has arrived at a very different conclusion.

"Today, al-Qaida is also frequently spoken of as it if is in retreat: a broken and beaten organization incapable of mounting further attacks on its own and instead having devolved operational authority either to its carious affiliates and associated or to entirely organically produced, homegrown, terrorist entities. Nothing could be further from the truth," Hoffman told the committee.

The Afghan attack "pulverized" al-Qaida, Hoffman told United Press International Wednesday.

"I think we did do that, but this is a movement with enormous regenerative capacity -- its message resonates, and it's not wanting for volunteers," Hoffman said. "They've adapted and adjusted to even our most consequential countermeasures."

Thanks to poorly considered policies by the current administration, America is doing to al Qaida what the British did to the American colonies in the late 1770s. We're alienating people all over the world because of stupid things like Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, rendering, torture, Fallujah and even deadly checkpoints that our friends in Iraq can't figure out. We can't even keep the electricity on. It's not what they intended, but Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are al Qaida's best recruiters. This has to change.