[packrat01]

... but it's not a REAL war. It's something different.

http://www.policyreview.org/AUG02/harris_print.html

[TomSmedley]

but it's not a REAL war. It's something different.

http://www.policyreview.org/AUG02/harris_print.html

WOW. That article is well-worth reading, saving, and digesting. Thanks for the link!

[jjm2111]

I don't think that's what that guy said at all. His conclusion is such:

"There is one decisive advantage to the “evildoer” metaphor, and it is this: Combat with evildoers is not Clausewitzian war. You do not make treaties with evildoers or try to adjust your conduct to make them like you. You do not try to see the world from the evildoers’ point of view. You do not try to appease them, or persuade them, or reason with them. You try, on the contrary, to outwit them, to vanquish them, to kill them. You behave with them in the same manner that you would deal with a fatal epidemic — you try to wipe it out."

Wipe out Al Qaeda and all who support it. I feel we will be embroiled in a full-blown war against most Muslims in the middle-east.

[L,TOWM]

An interesting (and IMHO, mostly correct) premise on the basic motivations of these vermin.

Sadly, for me, anyway, is the realization that we will not get it until we have been hit again a few more times. The other sad thing about this analysis is the effort that will need to be extended to discredit the ideology as much as Italian Fascism was discredited.

We won't win until wacko muslim clerics are being killed by their own people, and hung upside down in a town square to be pelted with garbage, a la Mussolini. I'm not sure that this country, which is still engaged in foolishness 1 year later, has the will needed to face reality and then do the job as ruthlessly as the job was being done in 1944.

And, even if we do, will our nation have a political system left that would be recognizable to, say, my grandfather? (He passed away in 1997.)