One of Barack Obama’s advisers(fn1) on national security issues, Philip H. Gordon, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and former National Security Council staffer during the Clinton administration, published an article in the winter 2007-08 issue of Survival, the journal of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (fn2). He argued that America’s strategy against terror is failing
because the Bush administration chose to wage the wrong war.
The Bush record is six years of failure, according to Gordon, because of a misdiagnosis of the origins of the problem, too much faith in military force and belligerent rhetoric, alienating friends and allies, conflating America’s foes into a single ‘enemy’, and misunderstanding the ideological fundamentals of the struggle.
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