On explique les échecs de l’emploi de la force comme on explique ceux de l’austérité : ce n’était pas suffisant.
War on Terror Hawks Can’t Fail, They Can Only Be Failed - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/war-on-terror-hawks-cant-fail-they-can-only-be-failed/281939
On Sunday, Dianne Feinstein, the head of the Senate intelligence committee, and Mike Rogers, the head of the House intelligence committee, appeared on network television, where they announced that terrorists have gained ground in recent years.
Among their claims:
– We’re less safe than we were two years ago.
– Islamist groups are winning the minds of the disenfranchised in the Middle East and Asia.
– There has been “a rise in fatalities from terrorist-related activities.”
– The enemy has “increasingly specialized and dangerous technology,” including powerful bombs.
– “Terror groups had already tried, on four separate occasions, to send these newer, more deadly explosives into the United States.”
– “Al Qaeda as we knew it before is metastasizing to something different.”
Got that? When it comes to terrorism, they say you’re no better off than you were two years ago. As a result, these two legislators have declared recent national security policy a failure, insisted on mass firings for cause in the national security bureaucracy, and called for a new approach to counterterrorism.
Ha! Just kidding. Even though they think we’re less safe now, and that the enemy is more dangerous, they favor continuing or intensifying current policy, and they aren’t calling for any resignations at the CIA or the NSA or the DOD or the White House or anywhere else.