Yahoo! News - Army War College Study Blasts U.S. War on Terrorism

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"Terrorism is a common noun. It's a technique. How do you make war on terrorism as opposed to specific terrorist organizations?"

- Jeffrey Record, veteran defense expert and visiting research professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the Army War College

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Ouch! Record pretty much blows the Iraq invasion out of the water. Other choice quotes:

Lumping Iraq and al Qaeda together "as a single, undifferentiated terrorist threat ... was a strategic error of the first order because it ignored critical differences between the two in character, threat level and susceptibility to U.S. deterrence and military action."

"The result has been an unnecessary preventive war of choice against a deterred Iraq that has created a new front in the Middle East for Islamic terrorism and diverted attention and resources away from securing the American homeland against further assault by an undeterrable al Qaeda."

The Bush administration's declared goals "are unrealistic and condemn the United States to a hopeless quest for absolute security."

"I don't think that it is within America's power to rid the world of terrorism. ... The idea that you're going to be able to expunge this form of warfare from the world, I think, is really stretching it."