Apparently you missed the point of this article entirely. What we call the 'Global War on Terror' and they call 'Jihad' is about nothing more than the will to win.
Suicide bombing is a cultural phenomenon, only one aspect of which is military. We're trying to fight 'terror' with military might, because that's our strong suit. They're opting to fight us with faith and fervor, rather than firepower.
Since we lack the will to use our firepower to its full extent, we're not smothering the fire of fanaticism; we're fanning it. We don't understand the power of zealotry, we treat it as a security issue created by rational grievances. Now that power is magified under the lens of a global media that hates America.
So here we are, sending a military we can't fully use, against a religious fanaticism that goes more mainstream by the day. It's no coincidence that Bin Laden and Zawahiri quote left wing American politicians, or that fanatical Islamics are getting voted into office whatever Mulsim countries actually hold elections.
It's a cultural war that we pretend to ignore, while occasionally treating the symptoms with kinetic airstrikes. That strategy didn't work for the Israelis, and in the long term, it won't work for us.
So, Ralph Peters wants us to use more covert actions in addition to all the weaponry (such as that exemplified by Jack Bauer, Ex. Let them think they are getting secret documents, but the documents have major technology flaws or they are so complicated, they need help of U.S. to use them.)
The Islam extremists excel at establishing global lies and are not as stupid as we believed. They are getting it together with the cell phone, travel tickets, video tape. Would you have believed that could be done.
Tactics not unknown to be exemplified on our soap operas by the families. We just have to get better with the propoganda and play dirty in addition to the technology.
Glad I read the article by Ralph Peters. Didn't think I could understand all those inflated ideas, but I think I got the gist of it. People energized with belief in a God have more enthusiasm to kill people than those who are athiest or secular. So, we will see, will the
Islam extremists succeed in organizing all the countries against us?? Nahhhhhhhhh! But we have a tough row ahead of us. Maybe the Hamas in Israel will be the key. My eyes
are focused on them at this time as possible key. No way will we ever get a Utopian way of life on this earth with all the differences of opinion as to how to get a Utopia.
It has always been my belief that there is enough for
everyone on this earth, just some people want more than others.
Can't we just all learn to get along!!!!
" We praise Nathan Hale's willingness to die for his cause. Now imagine thousands of men anxious to die for theirs. "
" A paradox of our time is that the overwhelmingly secular global media--a collection of natural-born religion-haters--have become the crucial accomplices of the suicide bomber fueled by rabid faith. "
" How many readers of this magazine have participated in a wargame that addressed crippling consumer shortages as a conflict with China dragged on for years? Instead, we obsess about the fate of a pair of aircraft carriers. "
" We have reached the point (as evidenced by the first battle of Falluja) where the global media can overturn the verdict of the battlefield. "
Yeah, that's the ticket. Only, I hope they pick him to convince the Marines to commit suicide and not me, 'cause I can't run that fast any more.>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Anyone trying to convince American Marines to commit suicide would be as bold as one biker I was told about some years ago. According to a reliable witness this man was walking around a mall in Charlotte, NC with a t-shirt bearing the message,"God created Hondas to keep N-----s off of Harleys". A foolhardy individual indeed.