BBC NEWS: Is US winning its war on terror?

Is US winning its war on terror?

Analysis
By Frank Gardner
BBC security correspondent


Much has happened in the past 12 months. Some of al-Qaeda's leading lights have been caught and interrogated. Saddam Hussein is no longer in power in Baghdad. Numerous plots and attacks have been thwarted. And yet, depressingly, the so-called war on terror is still with us.

The suicide bombings have not stopped, nor has the stream of anti-western invective from websites and audio broadcasts from those sympathetic to al-Qaeda. So who is winning and who is losing the war?

If we were to look at this purely in terms of military gains the answer would be obvious. The US has swiftly toppled two governments it considered to be rogue regimes - first in Afghanistan, then in Iraq. The Pentagon's supremacy on the battlefield is unrivalled and unstoppable. Its troops are holding down a sort of peace in both countries.

But waging a war on terror is a complex business. In fact many in Britain are convinced that the regime of Saddam Hussein, brutal as it was, had little to do with terrorism per se.

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"There is now a growing conviction that the Bush administration has acquired a taste for regime change and will not stop at Baghdad."

Not by choice, however. We're not getting out of Iraq any time soon. The Iraqi quagmire will put the brakes on Chimpy's future regime change plan.

On the plus side for him, though, there will be lots and lots and lots of blood and death. I know he gets off on that. He's a sick, sick man.

Bush wants to rule the world, and if he can scrounge the money to do it, he WILL :(.. Look out, world..