Doing what it has been doing, the US has created more terrorists and havens for them. It's gotten worse than it was.

And if the US stops doing what it's been doing, according to the report, it will get worse faster.

“If this trend continues, threats to U.S. interests at home and abroad will become more diverse, leading to increasing attacks worldwide,” the document says. “The confluence of shared purpose and dispersed actors will make it harder to find and undermine jihadist groups.”

Choices - don't stop, and it gets worse. Do stop, and it gets worse. Waddles, quacks, got feathers, and lays duck eggs. That's a quagmire.

According to Bush, the analysts are "naive and mistaken".

Arf