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06/08/2004:

"America's ignorance is a threat to humanity"

NEW YORK George Tenet's resignation last week came after failures of American intelligence in the Iraq war as well as in the lead-up to the Sept. 11 attacks. But the U.S. government's intelligence failures extend far beyond the CIA and the countries where America is at war or chasing terrorists.

In the world's poorest regions, from the Andes to Central Asia, the U.S. government seems to operate almost blindly, facing challenges that it simply does not understand and therefore can't resolve.

This isn't a problem that started in this Bush administration, though the combination of ignorance and arrogance in President George W. Bush's foreign policy has proved especially lethal. www.iht.com