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More than six years after the start of the 'war on terror', America's strategy is failing because the Bush administration chose to wage the wrong war. It has misdiagnosed the most important origins of the problem, put too much faith in military force and tough talk, needlessly alienated friends and allies, wrongly assumed the existence of a single 'enemy', and failed to understand the ideological nature of the struggle. Until the administration changes course or, more likely, leaves office, the United States will risk creating more enemies than it eliminates. A new administration would benefit from thinking about the 'war on terror' like the Cold War, a conflict won not when the United States defeated its enemy on a battlefield, but when the ideology its adversary was ostensibly fighting for was proven bankrupt and lost its once-considerable support. (Survival / SWP)