Ideological War Against Al-Qaeda Being Losed By US: MMullen

WASHINGTON: US Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff said United States losing the ideological war against AlQaeda and Taliban.

The US military chief warning in an article that his country’s public diplomacy efforts in Afghanistan are generally flawed.

In the latest issue of Joint Forces Quarterly, Michael Mullen, wrote: “For all the time we spend thinking about how we communicate our actions, we are failing to actually build relationships and convince the majority Afghans not to hate us. The Taliban, on the other hand, are doing pretty well. ”

The United States has to devise such a Marshall Plan for the war against terrorism, which was formulated for reconstruction of Europe after the second world war, he wrote.

Pentagon has admitted that several innocent people were killed in the Drone attacks causing anger against the United States.

“We hurt ourselves and the message we are trying to send when it appears we are doing something merely for the credit. We hurt ourselves more when our words don’t align with our actions,” he wrote.

The admiral pointed out that the biggest problem in U.S. public diplomacy is lack of credibility.