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The Swarm
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| 7/19/04
| Wretchard
Posted on 07/19/2004 10:55:25 AM PDT by SBprone
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What are we doing in the mideast?
Here's an answer from Wretchard. If I may be so bold as to paraphrase, we are engaging Jihadis on so many different channels that the stimulus overload is causing chaos in the ranks. Wretchard cites the recent events in Gaza an an example of chaos deliberately induced by the IDF with their Hellfires.
Assymetric warfare is not a one-way street after all.
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posted on
07/19/2004 10:55:26 AM PDT
by
SBprone
To: SBprone
Unleash the Protoss!
Life for these guys seems to be a lot tougher without their sugar daddy Saddam around.
To: Antoninus; lainde; RightWingMama; sartorius; DAVEY CROCKETT; Dog; Cap Huff; Travis McGee; ...
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posted on
07/19/2004 11:20:21 AM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)
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To: SBprone
---Clausewitz defined victory as imposing a state of chaos on the enemy: the definition of a rout. ---
Decapitating Hamas is the key here. The loss of Rantisi in particular was the decisive blow. It was Rantisi and Hamas that were holding the line in Gaza not Arafat and his Fatah. Without Rantisi's leadership the energy of anger devolves into chaos.
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posted on
07/19/2004 11:26:18 AM PDT
by
claudiustg
(Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Interesting.
Thanks for the ping.
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posted on
07/19/2004 11:32:10 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Show compassion, club a baby troll today!)
To: The Dude Abides
Life for these guys seems to be a lot tougher without their sugar daddy Saddam around.exactly - with the U.S. taking out the Taliban and Saddam's regime, alongside the Israeli's blowing up the Hamas leadership, and Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen at the very least being more aggressive and actually killing several key terrorists, we seem to have these Islamic terrorists on the run.
To: Cannoneer No. 4
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posted on
07/19/2004 12:04:05 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
To: SBprone
An insightful article, and I am borrowing a piece of it for awhile for my tagline.
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posted on
07/19/2004 12:05:10 PM PDT
by
Sender
(Jihad is an excuse for avoiding the task of making Islamic society work.)
To: SBprone
America was going to be left defeated and confused. Those decentralized units, like Al Qaeda's airplane hijackers, could tie down a disproportionately large conventional force as the hapless United States was engaged everywhere and effective nowhere. Yet America, in its own way, was redressing the balance by organizational adaptation and the application of new technology. What if it could act so swiftly, so multifariously and so locally that the enemy would be literally overwhelmed by an attack on all fronts? What do you thing happened with the Al-Queada attack, Afghanistan and Iraq? The U.S. moved and decisively.
If John Kerry were President, he would peer at his navel and wonder what is wrong with America. But with Bush and Rumsfeld, the wars were weeks instead of months.
The writer is out of date and hasn't been noticing recent events.
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posted on
07/19/2004 12:35:45 PM PDT
by
sr4402
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Man do I love Wretchard's writing. Thanks for the ping.
To: sr4402
I think you need to reread the article. The writer created a picture of a scenerio al-Queada THOUGHT would happen and then described what REALLY happened.
al-Queado planned based on what happened under Clinton, the rear view mirror, and failed to take into account a significant change in leadership.
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posted on
07/19/2004 12:48:45 PM PDT
by
mpreston
To: SBprone
the Jihad is an excuse for avoiding the task of making Islamic society work. !!!!!!
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posted on
07/19/2004 1:11:00 PM PDT
by
happygrl
To: secretagent
To: sr4402
The writer is out of date and hasn't been noticing recent events. Er, try again.
Actually reading the WHOLE article and understanding it might be a good start.
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posted on
07/19/2004 4:47:05 PM PDT
by
TomB
("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Thankyou for the ping! My gosh, I look forward to reading Belmont Club!
Prairie
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posted on
07/19/2004 4:54:27 PM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(10 out of 10 terrorists agree, anybody but BUSH!!)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Mean while Sharon sits back and smiles.
Hey lets you and him fight.
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posted on
07/19/2004 6:50:20 PM PDT
by
Valin
(Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.)
To: Sender
Re your tagline: Very well put.
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posted on
07/19/2004 6:54:38 PM PDT
by
Valin
(Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.)
To: SBprone
Instead of thrusting a rapier into the OODA cycle at precisely the critical time,...OODA ?
To: secretagent
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posted on
07/19/2004 7:04:28 PM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(I've lost turret power; I have my nods and my .50. Hooah. I will stay until relieved. White 2 out.)
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