Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[ergo sum]

Bush guys are doing a good job of what?

It is, Jacoby admits, a tall order. Despite the Bush administration's global war on terrorism, he noted that al Qaeda had its most active year ever in 2002, killing hundreds of tourists in Bali, bombing a French tanker off the coast of Yemen, attacking U.S. Marines in Kuwait, assassinating a U.S. diplomat in Jordan and staging other attacks in Mombassa and Tunisia.
During this period, Israeli-Palestinian violence continued with no end in sight, which Jacoby said increases the likelihood of terrorist attacks against Americans and their allies in the region, and carries the potential for wider conflict throughout the Middle East.
And if all this were not troubling enough, al Qaeda, despite losses since Sept. 11, 2001, maintains operations on six continents and is arguably more agile than its adversaries in the U.S. intelligence community.
"We recognize that we're called upon to 'know something about everything,' and it'’s a daunting task for those already at war on a global scale," Jacoby said. "I am increasingly concerned that our Defense Intelligence capability is being stretched too thin and that we are being forced to sacrifice longer term capabilities in order to respond to today's requirements."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58343-2003Feb24.html