Recommendation: The U. S. government must identify and prioritize actual or potential terrorist sanctuaries. For each, it should have a realistic strategy to keep possible terrorists insecure and on the run, using all elements of national power. We should help reach out, listen to, and work with other countries that can help.
The section that this advice summarizes is titled "No Sanctuaries". It discusses the needs of a "complex terrorist operation aimed a launching a catastrophic attack" and lists the prime locations that a survey of knowledgeable officials thought met those needs.
Given our current situation in Iraq, it also mentions that "If, for example, Iraq becomes a failed state, it will go to the top of the list of places that are breeding grounds for attacks against Americans at home".
So, what does this recommendation mean?
Are there other "potential terrorist sanctuaries" not mentioned in the 9/11 Report? What consideration is being given to how shifting demographics (see Mark Steyn America Alone) are changing the nature of who can (and will) help?
What is a "realistic strategy to keep possible terrorists insecure and on the run"? How do we use "all elements of national power" to do that? What do we do to "reach out, listen to, and work with other countries that can help"? Especially, if those other countries decide that their helping is not one of their policy goals?
What compromises are we going to have to make to do "reach out, listen to, and work with"? Who do we think are most productive in this? What alliances will we have to forsake? At what point do we realize (that is, what are the objective criteria that establish) that no one is listening or willing to work with us? Are we willing to stand, as England did in 1940 and 1941, by ourself and assert our national right to exist, though a majority of the UN community decides otherwise?
In particular, a question I have is what makes anyone think that "responsible redeployment" in Iraq is NOT going to leave Iraq as a "failed state"?
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