Gates won't say who's winning terror war

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

SINGAPORE - Declining to say whether the U.S. and its partners are winning the war on terror, Defense Secretary Robert Gates called Saturday for more focus on combating poverty and other underlying causes of extremism.

"I think we are still early in this contest," Gates said in a question-and-answer session with attendees of a conference on Asian security, an annual gathering that took on an unusual dimension with the participation of a senior Chinese general who offered a pointed defense of his country's military buildup.

In a speech to the gathering known as the Shangri-la Dialogue, Gates called on Asian nations to contribute more to the war on terrorism and to ensure that Afghanistan not be allowed to slip back into chaos. He touched only lightly on China, whose military buildup had been a central focus of previous conferences.

And while Gates mentioned the Iraq war and warned of security risks posed by the nuclear ambitions of North Korean and Iran, he focused more on broader themes of terrorism and U.S. commitments in Asia.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070602/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_asia

[LynnTheDem]

1. Osama bin Laden won already.

Definition of terrorism: to effect change, usually political"

bush regime mantra: "911 changed everything"

Voila. Thanks to bush, the terrorists won and are still winning.