Army War College Report Blasts War on Terror: "Institute's report warns anti-terror campaign may launch 'open-ended and gratuitous conflict.'
'The global war on terrorism as presently defined and conducted is strategically unfocused, promises much more than it can deliver, and threatens to dissipate U.S. military and other resources in an endless and hopeless search for absolute security,' Record wrote, concluding his 56-page monograph. 'The United States may be able to defeat, even destroy, Al Qaeda, but it cannot rid the world of terrorism, much less evil.' "

Anyone who has heard Richard Perle's interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, will probably agree that the hardliners behind and inside the Bush administration are pushing for "open-ended and gratuitous conflict".
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