As Al Qaeda rebuilds in Pakistan’s tribal areas, a new generation of leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden to cement control over the network’s operations, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.Well, now wait a minute?! Is the GWOT achieving exactly the opposite of it's intended outcome? Sure looks like it.
Could it be that we need to flip everything the W, Rove and Co says in order to reveal what is really happening? Seems like it.
It's certainly a topsy-turvy situation, now isn't it?
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Man shall not live by bread alone - Matthew 4:4
Nor can terrorists live on terror alone. At some point they have to deliver.
Terrorists don't deliver security or municipal services like sewer, water, schools, and welfare.
Attacks on the West don't provide anything tangible for terror constituencies. Breaking other people's crockery is essentially pointless. But terror provokes Western counterattacks from which spring more terrorists.
If terrorists aren't smart enough to learn that terrorism doesn't get them anything, we should be smart enough to learn that counter-terrorism doesn't produce anything but more terrorists.
A terror-state, were such a thing to be encouraged into existence, would force terrorists to be responsible. A terror state would also make a nice target should terrorists prove irresponsible.
A fool who has something to lose is easier to deal with than one who has nothing to lose. We need to find a way to give terrorists something to lose. Terrorists have yet to face up to the problem of, 'What happens if we win?' We should encourage that kind of thinking.
That is a great point. I'm elevating your comment to the front page.
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