Failing U.S. war on terrorism. So do you feel safer now?

A majority of top 108 U.S. foreign policy experts say the world is a more dangerous place for Americans today than just six months ago, thanks largely to the war in Iraq and a failing U.S. war on terrorism, a new survey shows.

The Foreign Policy magazine and the Center for American Progress findings appear as a Terrorism Index in the September/October issue of Foreign Policy magazine, which is published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Following are the top countries named by experts as posing major challenges to U.S. national security policy.

Q: Which country is most likely to become the next al Qaeda stronghold?

Pakistan.......35 percent
Iraq.............22 percent
Somalia........11 percent
Sudan...........8 percent
Afghanistan...7 percent

Q: Choose the ally that least serves America's national security interests.
Russia...........34 percent
Pakistan........22 percent
Saudi Arabia..17 percent
Israel.............14 percent
Mexico............5 percent
Egypt..............5 percent

[Alertnet Reuters]