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By Pauline Jelinek
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
U WASHINGTON The war
on terror might eventually be
won, depending on one’s defini
tion of winning.
1 Victory might mean a drop in
the number of terror attacks, or
a drop in the death tolls they in
flict. But almost no one foresees
a complete end to terror tactics
that have succeeded in getting
attention for Islamic extremists
and others. Witness the Middle
Ast, for example.
J| President Bush ignited a con
tinuing controversy early this
week by saying he doesn’t think
the war is winnable; then he
reversed himself, saying flatly
that it is.
jj The truth is probably more nu-
anced, say experts on the military,
Islam and international issues.
And though Bush asserted
that the United States is winning
now, there’s wide disagreement
on that as well.
f It won’t be time to even think
about declaring victory until the
United States goes “many years”
without a catastrophic attack
like the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults
that killed some 3,000 Ameri
cans, said Michael O’Hanlon,
a defense analyst for the lib
eral-oriented Brookings Institu
tions, which operates as a sort of
loyal-opposition commentator
here when Republicans hold the
White House.
Even then, O'Hanlon said, at
tacks would continue, perhaps
at the level of the October 2000
bombing of the USS Cole off of
Yemen that killed 17 sailors.
“The best we can hope for is
to reduce the level of conflict,
the deadliness of conflict and
the frequency,” agreed Shireen
Hunter, Islam specialist at the
Center for Strategic and Interna
tional Studies, a national secu
rity-oriented research group.
That will require protecting
the homeland, crushing the cur
rent generation of al-Qaida and
it’s sympathizers and stemming
the rise of new generations of
like-minded Islamic radicals,
analysts said.
Americans are split on how
it’s going. A survey last month
showed four in 10 saying the
war is being won. four in 10
saying that it isn’t and the rest
not sure.
Analysts appeared more
worried.
The war’s not being won,
O'Hanlon said, “because we’re
doing a good job against the
first generation of al-Qaida but
not... the second.”
Al-Qaida was scattered from
its haven in Afghanistan, ar
rests of some leaders and opera
tives have been made around the
world and international coalition
efforts have stemmed the flow of
some money used to finance ter
rorist activities.
“We are doing damage to the
other side,” said Joshua Mu-
ravchik of the American Enter
prise Institute.
At the same time, some U.S.
actions have increased contempt
for America among Muslims,
thus helping terrorists recruit
new followers, O’Hanlon and
others said.
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