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March 06, 2007
Islamogangsters
Like many others, Mary bids farewell to the internecine ideological struggle at the Dean's World group blog. And - informed by a childhood in the Wise Guy homeland of Nutley, NJ - makes the most cogent critique of the War on Terror I have yet heard:
From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.
That was his FDR moment, his call for a clearly defined war against definable political and/or military organizations, a war that could be definably 'won'; a war based on established actions, not ideology or dogma. If he'd had the courage of his convictions, we wouldn't be spinning our wheels discussing ideological and religious issues that, in the end, have little influence on whether the GWOT is a win, a loss or a draw.
I think we're fighting a bunch of gangsters. Why do they ('they' defined as the military and financial infrastructure of the billion dollar underground terrorist network - not Islam) hate us? Because they're greedy pigs who resent anyone who has more money, power and influence than they do, and they're willing to manipulate and kill people to get it. The fact that they're using morality and religion as their cover makes them even more vile than most who have gone before them, but that shouldn't change our focus. We can't fight gangsters with philosophy, religious outreach programs and political correctness.
We also can't fight them by classifying everyone who is in their religious group, or everyone who has kissed the Don's hand, as the focus of the problem. Both the Islamophobes and the Islamophobe-watchers do that. This leads to poorly conceived, poorly planned strategy. If we refrained from shutting down the Mafia because we were afraid that doing so would offend all Italians, Gotti would be president and Gambini would be head of state. If we fought the Mafia by arresting everyone in Little Italy, pulling over every olive oil truck and raiding Arthur Avenue, the result might have been the same.
Judith | 03/06/07 at 07:41 PM | Categories: WWIV
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Actually, classifying them by Nation State doesn't do any good, either, save for those Nations actively sponsoring same. That is not the whole story, however, and the internetworking of Transnational Terrorist organizations points to a deeper and more fundamental problem of that as it involves so many organizations of different outlook that any support given to one, ensures that the entire network is supported and even enhanced. That is why giving any respite to FARC by Congress is a tacit support for those organizations in contact with FARC throughout Latin America.
That is what the world faces at this point and nothing done to this day is addressing it nor finding a way to curb it. Some of what has been done is a necessary stage setting to remove supporting Nations and such, but that is not addressing the problem.
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| March 7, 2007 11:27 AM
