The Age: West will fail, says ex-CIA operative

[laststeamtrain]

West will fail, says ex-CIA operative

By The Age

0711/07 "The Age" -- - -AS PESSIMISM grows in the US about Iraq, the American commander there has warned that the war will take many years to win and a former top CIA officer has told a Sydney conference that defeat is inevitable in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Michael Scheuer, who headed the CIA's bin Laden unit until 2004, said the West was losing the global battle against Muslim insurgents.

Mr Scheuer said the US and its allies had failed to commit enough troops to win and did not understand the grievances motivating Muslim insurgents.

"We in the West are fighting an enemy we have woefully chosen to misunderstand and to whom we are losing hands down and on every front," he said.

Mr Scheuer said the US and its allies continually became involved in Middle East wars because of their reliance on Arab oil supplies and had little other interest in the region.

The US had tried "to do Afghanistan on the cheap" and that defeat there was "just around the corner," he said.

Mr Scheuer's bleak declaration came as the US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, said the war in Iraq could last for many years.

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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/07/10/1183833519273.html

[Maat]

1. Things are not looking good.

We need to impeach those crapheads, now!

[OwnedByFerrets]

2. Uhhhhhhh, what does WIN mean???

nt

[robinlynne]

3. who or what is the age? This article is very interesting. just wondeirng where it comes from.

[laststeamtrain]

4. The Age is a daily newspaper out of Melbourne, Australia.

Wiki says it was founded in 1854.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age

I think I first read something from The Age here at DU.

[robinlynne]

6. Thank-you.

[Usrename]

5. That sounds about right to me.

How they managed such an enormous accomplishment (and at the same time ruined our economy, our reputation, our schools, our infrastructure, and our manufacturing base) is just about impossible to explain.

They ruined science and religion. How does anyone do that?