2007: War Clouds Thicken on the Horizon
The Bear on Feb 25 2007 at 9:24 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
The Islamists, however, look beyond mere political power. They want to control every aspect of the lives of every individual, including what one eats, wears and does in the privacy of one’s home.
To treat this new terrorism as a purely political phenomenon is intellectually dishonest and potentially suicidal for the afflicted societies.
The most effective means of dealing with this new terrorism is to treat it as a new form of warfare, with the body of the suicide-bomber as a new weapon. Like all other forms of warfare and all other weapons, this new terrorism and the suicide-bombers it deploys are impressive, disconcerting and effective beyond their real impact because no way has yet been found to cope with them effectively.
The most dramatic example of the effect that this new terrorism can achieve can be seen in Iraq. This new terrorism has caused many thousands of deaths without winning any battles or securing any territory. Nor has it been able to stop the political process it has vowed to sabotage. And, yet, this new terrorism has succeeded in persuading a majority of the Americans and Europeans, and many Arabs, that Iraq is already lost to groups that do not represent even five per cent of the Iraqi population. The only people who know that this form of terrorism cannot win are the Iraqis who represent its principal victims.
Islamists, warfare, terrorism, Iraq
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