Terrorists and Transnationalists Unite

How does one define terrorism? When drafting my Goals on the Global War on Terror document, that definition needed to be done and to separate terrorism and give it a more coherent view as to what it is all about.

Well, looking at the major goals across terrorist organizations, as opposed to standard Nation based insurgencies, the broad swath of terrorist organizations have no standard set of goals, save that they are international in flavor. Islamofascist types seek to install a Caliphate, while the old fashioned Communist International version would prefer that sort of system and your plain old narcotics trafficker version is just looking to get some sort of dissolution of State to State police and military activities against it to help further its commerce. Not a perfect grouping, but its not a perfect world.

Their end state goals, however, have a common means: degrade the Nation State and the validity of the State to act in its own defense. Once that is achieved, domination through terror will get the end goals installed. This means, however, has another international version to it: Transnational Progressivism. The Transnational Progressivists also want to diminish the power of Nation States, degrade their ability to rule, remove their ability to fight and, generally, end them. In their place will be 'group rule' in which individuals only get cumulative rights from the groups that they are born into. Over all of those groups will be a ruling elite.

Terrorists picked up on this at some point and now use the same group-based identity concept and have added *that* to their weaponry. Their goal is now identical to Transnational Progressivists, save that they operate in the interstices of the Nation State system while the Progressivists work within the system. Once the Nation State is removed as an effective concept both internally and externally, group-based rule will happen and the differences are only on *which* group gets supremacy.

Thematically this is a return to Empire as the highest form of governance, and various arguments have been made on all sides of *that* question before. Very few of those arguments actually apply it to the modern era and formulate how it can be done. The Transnationalist conception is the leading way in this both in its internally corrosive concept of group/ethnic/ideology based ruling and refusal to support National identity and the externally terroristic side which aims to delegitimize the monopoly of States on military power. Gwynn Dyer noted in the 1970's that the US and USSR would finally need to come to some form of cooperation against terrorism because of this inherently delegitimization of State based military systems.

Transnational Terrorists of all stripes and kinds have recognized this commonality of method, although differing on end status, and have internetworked to form a system of sharing tactics, plans and actually cross-planning between groups. They are, of course, aided by various States that use terrorists to their own ends. Iran, by training Hezbollah better than their internal Revolutionary/Special Guards, Basij, Police and Military have effectively created a highly capable Foreign Legion which they support and direct, but do not directly control. The ruling regime in Tehran is using the Nation as a basis for supporting the removal of the Nation State concept via the fostering of a strong external terrorist presence and itself looks towards the Transnational dissolution of the Nation to work its goals.

It is a long road ahead of us if this is not stopped.

Supposedly, these are the millionaires who voted for Lamont. "Transnational Progressivism. The Transnational Progressivists also want to diminish the power of Nation States, degrade their ability to rule, remove their ability to fight and, generally, end them. In their place will be 'group rule' in which individuals only get cumulative rights from the groups that they are born into. Over all of those groups will be a ruling elite." Sounds suspiciously like the maffia to me. Who says we have never had any trouble with immigrants? 100 years and we are still fighting the mafia. If you want to spread democracy somewhere, try NY and NJ.

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