Posted on 11/11/2005 9:16:26 PM PST by ncountylee
THEY are the new global warriors of militant jihad. Their battleground now stretches in a vast crescent from the old world to the new, from the once thriving industrial towns of Leeds and Bradford in northern England to Gallipoli St, Bankstown, in the western suburbs of Sydney.
This virtual community of radical Islamists, united by the internet and divided by a ravine of hate from unbelievers, is the sinister face of globalisation, altering our perceptions of a borderless world. In the past week they have helped inspire an orgy of arson in the Muslim ghettos of northern Paris, mounted murderous assaults on US hotels in Amman, blown themselves up in suicide-bomber attacks stretching from Baghdad to Batu in the highlands of East Java, and preached the virtues of holy war from comfortable suburban Melbourne.
Across the world, democratic governments and their security advisers are grappling with the most perplexing and troubling phenomenon of our age: how to identify and thwart Islamist terror cells flourishing across the continents.
Since September 11, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent countering the threat posed by Islamist terror groups. Counter-terrorism has become the overwhelming preoccupation for our military as well as our police and intelligence agencies.
But how effective has the US-led war on terror been in reducing the overall threat level? Four years after September 11, it is no longer possible to maintain that the US is winning the war on terror. The number of terrorists is growing, as is the pool of people who may be inspired to turn to violent action.
Radical Islamists are steadily gaining adherents and their jihadist ideology has become the rallying point for an array of grievances afflicting the Muslim world from the Middle East to Pakistan and Southeast Asia to Western Europe.
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this is what happens when you have millions without work...
they find work
The logical explanation is we haven't been killing them fast enough. The "kinder/gentler" game plan doesn't work with islamofascists.
I agree, high body count is needed and may act as a deterrent too.
No sign of that so far, if anything the evidence points to the opposite effect.
Is this Liberal-Speak for "Let them kill the Jews"?
"The US and its allies should offer exceedingly generous trade and aid incentives to regional governments such as Egypt in return for gradual liberalisation of their political systems, Simon believes."
Ah, the French solution - appeasment - brilliant!
"The logical explanation is we haven't been killing them fast enough."
Agreed. Or publicly enough. We need open executions of all convicted Islamofacists. I suggest we start with one or the other of the "beltway snipers".
This global jihad is going to get worse before it gets better, and the US is going to deserve some of the blame for that. For all the good we are doing in Iraq we are still trying to play by old rules, and the undermining of this war effort by the Dems, the Left, and the Media is a crime which will be answered for in History.
I like your attitude Jocon. When you're at war, the fastr you eliminate the enemy, the shorter the war. In the war on terror, we have a long way to go with 1.2B muslims. The sooner the french, germans and others on the sidelines find some manhood to lead them, the sooner we get on with it. Personally I feel there will be no end to international terror until there is an end to islam or at least a complete expulsion of islam from the civilized world.
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