WASHINGTON -- The last week began with ceremonies marking the six-month anniversary of the terrorist attack on the United States. President George W. Bush took advantage of the occasion to project his program for the next phase of the war on terrorism.
The president, addressing a rally at the White House featuring ambassadors from the coalition nations, suggested that in the current stage of the war the coalition is opposing not a nation, but a network. "Victory will come over time, as that network is patiently and steadily dismantled," he said, adding that it will "require international cooperation on a number of fronts: diplomatic, financial and military."
He described the scope of the problem, with American troops in Yemen, the Philippines, Georgia and, I am sure, points undisclosed preparing other nations for the battles. He suggested that the mission will end "when the work is finished; when the terror networks of global reach have been defeated; when the terrorist training camps are destroyed."