Posted on 08/31/2012 4:06:21 PM PDT by dynachrome
Gangs are one of the most basic, and most potent, building blocks of stateless Fourth Generation war. We commonly think of gangs in connection with crime. But through most of history, the line between crime and war was blurred, often to the point of vanishing. (See Barbara Tuchmans A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century.)
It was the state that drew the line clearly, but today in much of the Middle East and elsewhere states and the state system are collapsing. What is succeeding the state looks much like the 14th century Europe Tuchman describes: people and regions are at the mercy of roving bands of armed men who hire themselves out as soldiers when they can and otherwise take what they want from anyone too weak to resist them. Their only loyalty is to each otherto their gang.
One of the characteristics shared by most disintegrating states is a vast surplus of young men who have no access to jobs, money, or women. Gangs are a magnet for them. We see this in American contexts as well: in public schools, in ethnic neighborhoods, and in our prisons, most of which are controlled not by wardens but by racially defined gangs.
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Thanks dynachrome.
I work with a Doctor who is from Syria. He has evacuated as many family members as possible to the US. I asked him yesterday what all the stink was in Syria since the Press here in the US is reporting Freedom Fighters and Dictatorship. He laughed and told me point blank that the war in Syria is all about RELIGION. Sunni/Shia. He told me not top believe the Press. I’m inclined to believe this man.
Islam shows its true face as it shakes off western influence.
Gee, who didn’t see this coming, other than Obama?
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