Meet Your New Counterterrorism Chief

Now Wash The Oil Off Your Hands
(posted June 2 3:30 AM ET)

On Sunday, the W. Post reported that the Bush Administration is quietly undergoing a “high-level internal review of its efforts to battle international terrorism,” apparently after realizing it’s present strategy wasn’t all that.

The story notes that “many of the key counterterrorism jobs in the administration have been empty for months,” including the head of the National Counterterrorism Center.

The NCC was created in late August 2004 by executive order, one of four orders Dubya signed as the presidential campaign heated up.

As CNN.com reported at the time:

Sources familiar with the executive orders said they fall well short of the [9/11] panel's recommendations...

...One official complained that the measures do not go far enough, saying they are designed to create the appearance of doing something to respond to the 9/11 commission "without really doing anything meaningful."

But we digress. That is the past. What about the future? Will this belated introspection do us some good?

Based on the reported pick to head the NCC, LiberalOasis expects more of the same, more policies that breed international resentment and help terrorists grow their ranks.