Foreign Policy, an influential journal published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, did something interesting recently. The journal asked 100 leading American foreign-policy analysts, from both sides of the aisle, for their perspectives on the war on terrorism.<\/p>\n
The participants were some serious heavy-hitters, including a former secretary of state, former heads of the CIA and NSA, and prominent members of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment, most of whom served in previous presidential administrations, senior military positions, or both.<\/p>\n
The result was Foreign Policy’s first “Terrorism Index<\/a>,” released yesterday. Unfortunately, the leading experts in the field aren’t optimistic<\/a>. (from Hark via email)<\/p>\n Washington is failing to make progress in the global war on terror and the next 9\/11-style attack is not a question of if, but when. That is the scathing conclusion of a survey of 100 leading American foreign-policy analysts. […]<\/p>\n Some 86 percent of them said the world has grown more, not less, dangerous, despite President George W. Bush’s claims that the U.S. is winning the war on terror. […]<\/p>\n “When you strip away the politics, the experts, almost to a person, are very worried about the administration,” says Joe Cirincione, vice-president of the Center for American Progress, the Washington think-tank which co-sponsored the survey. “They think none of our front-line institutions is doing a good job and that Iraq has made the terror situation much worse.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Keep in mind, getting these 100 experts to agree on anything<\/i> is challenging, and yet, there was broad agreement on the Bush administration’s inability to make progress on these fronts.<\/p>\n In the survey’s accompanying report, Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, said policy analysts have never been in such agreement.<\/p>\n “The reason is that it’s clear to nearly all that Bush and his team have had a totally unrealistic view of what they can accomplish with military force and threats of force.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The White House isn’t fond of analysis from policy experts, but given the participants in this project, the results should raise some eyebrows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Foreign Policy, an influential journal published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, did something interesting recently. The journal asked 100 leading American foreign-policy analysts, from both sides of the aisle, for their perspectives on the war on terrorism. The participants were some serious heavy-hitters, including a former secretary of state, former heads of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}