Government Agencies not working together?

Here is another example from the NY TIMES of government agencies not getting their act together, and playing on the same page. For a president who claims he is fighting a war against terrorism, it would seem we are losing the internal battle, which is probably more important in the bigger picture than the land wars/police actions currently happening in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is an interesting contrast from the previous post regarding bringing business principles to government and vice versa.

The government's efforts to help foreign nations cut off the supply of money to terrorists, a critical goal for the Bush administration, have been stymied by infighting among American agencies, leadership problems and insufficient financing, a new Congressional report says.

More than four years after the Sept. 11 attacks, "the U.S. government lacks an integrated strategy" to train foreign countries and provide them with technical assistance to shore up their financial and law enforcement systems against terrorist financing, according to the report prepared by the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress.

It is amazing to me that various governmental agencies are more concerned about their own feifdoms, and not about the American public's general welfare and our ability to defend ourselves against future terrorist attacks.