AL QAEDA SUCCEEDING IN DECLINE OF U.S. POWER

"... Al Qaeda appears to have largely succeeded in its hopes of accelerating the decline of U.S. global power, if not bringing it to the brink of collapse. That appears to be the strong consensus of the foreign-policy elite which... believes that the administration of President George W. Bush badly "over- reacted" to the attacks and that that over-reaction continues to this day... The estimated three to 4.4 trillion dollars Washington has incurred either directly or indirectly in conducting the "global war on terror" account for a substantial portion of the fiscal crisis that transformed the country's politics and brought it to the edge of bankruptcy last month..."
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