Just got a press release from a new organization called American Security Project or ASP. They released a report today, that should shock none of us, that America is not winning the war on terror.
From the press release:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – According to a new report released today by the American Security Project (ASP), the United States and its allies are currently failing in the "War on Terror."
The report, "Are We Winning? Measuring Progress in the Struggle Against Violent Jihadism," is the first to examine together the component pieces of the struggle against Islamist terrorism and to produce a series of metrics of success that are both as objective as possible and reproducible on an annual basis.
Authored by ASP Senior Fellow Dr. Bernard I. Finel, the report features ten criteria to measure progress in combating the violent jihadist threat; uses empirical data to rate each trend positive, ambiguous or negative; and then ranks them in order of importance.
The results paint a decidedly bleak picture, with negative and ambiguous trends outweighing positive developments in combating the worldwide terrorist threat in both number and level of relative importance. Among the ten metrics, five are assessed as negative, three are ambiguous and two show some progress. But among the top five indicators, three were negative, one ambiguous and one positive.
The whole report is available here:
http://www.americansecurityproject.o...
The red, yellow, and green summary of the 10 indicators at the beginning of the report is quite chilling. The recommendations at the end are interesting as well.