PROGRESS? AYFKM???

OCT. 16 2003:

TO:
Gen. Dick Myers
Paul Wolfowitz
Gen. Pete Pace
Doug Feith
FROM:
Donald Rumsfeld
SUBJECT:
Global War on Terrorism
October 16, 2003

Today we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror. Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us?

Nov. 8, 2005:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration's yardsticks for progress in its fight against terrorism are inadequate and do not show whether the United States is winning or losing, a study by a congressional think tank says.

"Although four years have gone by since September 11, government agencies have still not agreed on criteria to measure progress against terrorism, even though billions of dollars have been spent," said Raphael Perl, author of the internal report by the Congressional Research Service.