From Seattle PI:
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama apparently plans a more aggressive approach than the Bush administration to helping friendly nations get better at fighting terrorism within their own borders, the State Department's top counterterrorism official said Tuesday.
Dell L. Dailey, who has led the counterterrorism office at State since June 2007, told reporters that he is encouraged by what he has seen and heard in multiple meetings with Obama's transition team.
"We do see the Obama administration being much, much more aggressive than maybe even their campaign actions indicated," Dailey said, stressing that he was referring to wider and deeper U.S. engagement with other countries to counter terrorist threats rather than unilateral U.S. military action.
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My Comment: I can only hope that this is true. But the problem is that many of these countries have accepted our money .... but diverted it to other programs. Case in point .... since 9/11 the U.S. has given almost $10 billion in assistance to Pakistan to fight Islamic extremism .... but this money has disappeared.
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