Author: British "Financial Times" columnist Gideon Rachman reports • George • W • Bush (GeorgeW.Bush) in the past often ask, an official in desperation, "why do we not find this • Bin Laden?" reply president was recommended sentence: "because he was hiding." Now, nearly a decade after 9/11, the United States finally found and killed bin Laden this •. Bin Laden's death provided an opportunity for the United States declared an end to the "war on terror." This is not to say that the United States and Europe can now no longer worry about terrorism. West needs a serious counter-terrorism policy for many years. But Bush's push to let terrorism become the core of US foreign policy initiatives was a mistake. Bush declared "global war on terrorism" distorts US foreign policy, and directly led to two wars - in Iraq and Afghanistan wars. War on terror, wasting huge amounts of money,
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And Washington gave birth to a secretive huge bureaucracy. Bin Laden's death this • • let Barack Obama (BarackObama) to begin quietly to correct certain errors. It is hard to rational look at the threat of terrorism. Terrorist attacks on New York and Washington still a matter of fear. Al-Qaeda (al-Qaeda) apparently spawned affiliated organizations, which may be as dangerous as the original al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden had directed from Pakistan. Intelligence officials say al-Qaeda branch in Yemen, Somalia and North Africa are planning a dangerous activity - there is no reason not to believe them. However, look at the death toll, you will find the terrorist threat is greatly exaggerated. • American scholar John Mueller (JohnMueller) in a book published two years ago pointed out that since 1960, the Americans killed by terrorists, "the number of accidents caused by deer to death over the same period almost the same." • Brian Jenkins (BrianJenkins) made a similar point of view in a report for the Rand Corporation (RandCorporation) wrote: "The average American died in a car accident probability is about one of 9000 points, the chance of being murdered about 1.8 millionth. "However, five years after 9/11, including the deaths of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, including the" average probability of ordinary people died in terrorist attacks in the United States only 50 millionth " . However, the resources invested US "war on terror" unbelievable. "Washington Post" (WashingtonPost) last year in the "Top Secret America" (TopSecretAmerica) reported that: "Since September 2001, Washington, DC and the surrounding areas have been built or under construction buildings for top-secret intelligence work are 33 they are almost the equivalent of three Pentagon. "and that's just since 9/11 the establishment of institutions. Before the "war on terror", the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) will by no means financial institutions or lack of resources. As of 2010, annual US intelligence budget was $ 75 billion - since 9/11 increased by more than 20 times. This data does not include the military activities of intelligence agencies, such as unmanned aircraft attacks in Pakistan. Given all this,
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, The United States spent a decade to track down bin Laden • This surprising. However, the success of this • kill bin Laden (plus about possible terrorist plot in the planning of new warnings) may actually be further increased intelligence spending. • David Petraeus (GeneralDavidPetraeus) announced last week the message was appointed CIA director, increased this possibility. General Petraeus was a "founder of the Empire", with a large number of supporters in Congress. In fact, despite good intelligence is crucial, but there is a lot of evidence that the presence of US intelligence work enormous waste and duplication. "Washington Post" said that as many as 51 federal agencies were ordered to monitor the flow of funds to terrorist networks. NSA intercepts 1.7 billion e-mails and calls every day - far more than the level capable of effective analysis. Excessive attention to intelligence gathering is not just a waste of time and money. More importantly, it also distorts US foreign policy - intelligence and military capabilities dangerous fusion took place. CIA plays a role in the war in Afghanistan has blurred that line. The appointment of a general in charge of the CIA will further blur that line. Meanwhile, in the US spies and soldiers who invested a lot of money, traditional diplomacy and development assistance funding is relatively insufficient. From the flow of resources, the United States has become so militarized foreign policy is not surprising in the past decade. But the results were disappointing. Iraq war led to hundreds of thousands of lives were lost, the result is very likely to make the threat of terrorism has become more serious. Now that we have confirmed that al-Qaeda leadership hiding in the hinterland of Pakistan, the utility of the decade-long war in Afghanistan is also doubtful. Meanwhile, in the United States invest a lot of money and resources in the global war on terrorism on the occasion, East Asia has changed truly epoch-making. Ultimately shape the next century will be the rise of new economic powers like China and India and the relative decline of the United States, rather than the threat of terrorism. However, to deal with the rise of China and revive the US economy is difficult and long-term challenge - not get rid of "America's Most Wanted" that brings the psychological satisfaction. Translator / Ho Lai you may be interested in the article: FT video and interactive: Related articles:
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