Britain for one nation has decided that it will not fight terrorism the way the US did it and the way it was doing it for the past 7 years. Its officials are claiming that the war on terror has caused more troubles for Britain than terrorism itself!

The pride of America in a failed war!

An ex-spy chief in UK said recently that there was no real basis for the high amount of money and attention given to the war on terror.

Two other senior British counterterrorism officials have in recent days criticized the United States for what they described as its overly militaristic approach to fighting terrorism and warned of a further erosion of civil liberties.

One of the officials, Dame Stella Rimington, a former head of the country's domestic intelligence agency, said that she hoped the next American president "would stop using the phrase 'war on terror."' She also said there had been a "huge overreaction" to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

This show that the US was wrong in dragging its 'allies' and 'friends' including countries like Singapore, Malaysia and now Indonesia in this stupid war that has turned to be a disguised war against Muslims who are anti-American in thinking.

In Indonesia, it is now clear that the Bali bombing in October 2002 was orchestrated by 'foreign' spies who led the Bali bombers now in jail to commit the act. The bomb was made of C4, an explosive that only the military personnel in Australia for example had access to in the year 2002. The C4 was not available in the Philippines, not in Indonesia and not even in Malaysia or Singapore and Thailand according to UK and US experts on bomb making.

Britain has approached terrorism more as a criminal matter than a military one. In contrast to the United States, where prosecutions against suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks have lagged, Britain has prosecuted the perpetrators of all the major terrorist attacks here since 2005. And it has achieved a 90 percent conviction rate, Sir Ken, the head of the country's chief prosecution service, noted in a speech on Monday night.

Yet Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore in the Asean region are tackling the terror issue as a military one, involving all sorts of gimmicks that cost millions of dollars used by the police and special anti-terror units that most of these countries developed recently.

The US spent less money in 'educating' itself about Islam and the Muslims while it spent billions fixing its loopholes (defense and military) to prepare itself for a war that it cannot win and lost by all standards.

Today, Pakistan is following the US in the drill to perfect its military standards in a political will that will allow it to kill more Muslims rather than to proliferate the ideas that terror or extremism are not good.

As a matter of fact, it has not been said enough, terrorism could be defeated or controlled by massive media and government efforts to spread the message of peace to the potential perpetrators. Instead of that, the money as we have seen, has gone into sophisticated anti-terror equipment and anti-terror cyber-space programs that are useless in protecting a nation or its population.

Maybe the world ought to follow the British example given above, where it treats terror as a crime that should be handled by police, courts and some brain washing exercise, the like it is doing in the Whitemoor jail. It is carrying out an extensive 'islamization' campaign among Muslims by Muslims in a bid to cause any terror ideas to falter from the minds of the jail birds.

Britain inexorably remained a super power after it left the world of conquests and empires in the early 20^th century for the simple reason that it attempts at understanding the needs of the people it conquers. It also tend to learn from its past mistakes. Not only that, Britain also tries to hear listen to the murmurs of the hearts and minds of its Islamic based population.

This is how success comes around, not by locking up a few hundreds of suspects and claim to the world that the war on terror is being won when in actual fact it is being lost! This is the US standards of dealing with 'terrorism'. Lock them up and kick them all day until they accept their 'faults' which are mostly psychologically driven. The captured 'enemy; combatants as the US calls the Guantanamo inmates are too clever to fall for the bad deeds of the jail masters in the US.

The 'combatants' comes into Guantanamo with the firm faith and mind that they will do what the jailers ask them to do and they will also accept their fate at the hands of the US, be it accusations of terror or what ever is thrown at them. The aim of this is to 'kill' any chances for the US to find the real 'leaders' who either sponsors, supports or draws the war plans for acts of terror across the world.

With its practice of waterboarding – meaning dipping the head in water buckets - the Muslims in jail are not impressed to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. So far, records have showed that the jail birds rather say they are terrorists and they intended to harm the US with terror. Later on, when come the details of the terror acts, the suspected terrorists will only tell what they have heard on radio, TV or read on the net. They will repeat the 'terror' stories and turn them into classic terror acts that cannot be confirmed and researched by anti-terror experts.

The war on terror has also led to the birth and rise of many 'charlatans' who called themselves 'experts' in terrorism. Some are in Singapore, others in the US and some in Europe and they are seen as the 'self proclaimed' experts in a war that the US lost in the end!

What has those so called experts achieved in the end? In Singapore for example, they contributed largely in the country's stiffening of rules against Muslims, which then allowed for true terror suspects from India, Sri Lanka and Nepal or Tibet to penetrate the Island state and to raise funds. The terror rules ordered by the anti-terror 'experts' in the Island state concentrated mainly on Muslims from Indonesia, Malaysia and other African origins.

Their impact can still be felt when Muslims crosses Malaysia's border with Singapore or when Indonesian males enters the city state. They are crossed checked and any alert on the immigration computers will lead to the questioning of the 'tourist' by the local special branch police.

The most important thing is that the US has to make changes in its war on terror and the if that is not done by either Obama and McCain the Asean states should not allow the US state departments to lead them by the nose in this silly war!

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