Brilliant

Showing ample reason for why I once heavily thought about working for the CSIS.... great analysis and right up the same thought path as my "trees" essay for the foreign policy/diplomacy essay I wrote 4 years back.

FT.com / News in depth / Terror - Bush has to review strategy, say US experts: "John Hamre, president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and former deputy secretary of defence, said: “Clearly [the world] is not safer. I think this highlights the complexity of the problem.

“We must defend a vast infrastructure constantly while extremists get to pick the time and place with very limited tools. Obviously we must try to intercept the terrorists. But we must also address the broader socio-political context. We can’t solve this with a relatively limited dimensional model of counterforce. Being mighty is one thing. Being effective is another. This is a much more complex problem”"