In Campaign Against Terrorism, U.S. Enters Period Of Pessimism And Gloom
By Greg Miller March 7 at 8:06 PM Follow @gregpmiller
U.S. counterterrorism officials and experts, never known for their sunny dispositions, have entered a period of particular gloom.
In congressional testimony recently, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. went beyond the usual litany of threats to say that terrorism trend lines were worse than at any other point in history.
Maj. Gen. Michael Nagata, commander of U.S. Special Operations forces in the Middle East, told participants on a counterterrorism strategy call that he regarded the Islamic State as a greater menace than al-Qaeda ever was.
Speaking at a New York police terrorism conference, Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA, said he had come to doubt that he would live to see the end of al-Qaeda and its spawn. This is long term, he said. My childrens generation and my grandchildrens generation will still be fighting this fight.
The assessments reflect a pessimism that has descended on the U.S. counterterrorism community over the past year amid a series of discouraging developments. Among them are the growth of the Islamic State, the ongoing influx of foreign fighters into Syria, the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Yemen and the downward spiral of Libyas security situation. The latest complication came Saturday, when the terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria carried out a series of suicide bombings and reportedly declared its allegiance to the Islamic State.
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CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)(whether by incompetence, negligence or complicity).
The same as with the other article about Anti-American feeling in Russia.
The western media bubble peddles a strange disorientating amnesia and ignorance of cause and effect.
marble falls
(57,099 posts)by the western powers in the aftermath of the fall of the Turkish Empire and the end of WWI.