ashley tellis

on c-span's washington journal this morning, ashley tellis of the carnegie endowment for international peace - senior associate discusses an overlooked achievement of the bush administration -- namely, that president bush has managed to balance and keep in focus both the war on terrorism and the needs of the nation...

tellis says the u.s.a. must remember that terrorism is an intrumentality used to gain a political end; terrorism is not irrational and not only religious...

he suggests the war on terrorism is not a war that the u.s.a. sought, but now we have opportunity to deal with terrorism and to promote democracy especially in the middle east...

tellis maintains the next step in the fight against terrorism will be to focus on nationalist terrorist groups vs. global terrorist groups... for now, we can not do this because we should not spread our resources too thinly...