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| StrategyPage: Al Qaeda Admits Defeat |
| 2006-04-27 |
| Posted by:ed |
| #6 Hear! Hear! 'Moose! |
| Posted by: 6 2006-04-27 17:06 |
| #5 Al-Qaeda's strategy seems to be clear: it is the realization that they cannot operate to any degree in a region or country with any semblance of order, so since they have proven incapable of tearing down order anywhere, they must flee towards chaos and attack order from there. This goes back to a very old argument I made, that this is a contest between civilization and barbarity, or more properly, vandalism. Primitism has Darwinistically fallen before civilization, to the point where the two can no longer co-exist, there is no place left for the primitives to live that is beyond the reach of civilization. They can no longer ignore civilization, yet they cannot become part of it. Their path is to extinction. Their only alternative is to destroy civilization utterly. But this is a futile path, as the reason civilization overwhelms them in the first place is because it is superior to them in every way. If there is any freedom of choice, or even exposure to the better way by the vast majority, it will always be chosen. That is why, in truth, this war reaches well beyond al-Qaeda, or even Islam. In a sense, all people on Earth who *cannot* evolve to modernity, who *cannot* integrate and abandon their primitive culture or religion, are allies to al-Qaeda. They too are on the chopping block of evolution. And they, too, will either evolve or perish. But, for now, al-Qaeda flees to Sudan and Gaza/Sinai, as islands of chaos. But the best they can ever hope for is just to sustain what little they have left, for their fuel is running low. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-04-27 14:50 |
| #4 Maybe we should start releasing video of inmates at Gitmo getting haircuts, eating meals and whining at their hearings about how they've changed their ways. Bet that video would go over well in the ME! |
| Posted by: Iblis 2006-04-27 12:40 |
| #3 Al Q hasn't driven the Americans out of Iraq and set up their caliphate. However, Al Q is very much winning the propaganda war. This is mostly because their allies include a huge part of the Moslem population of every country and they have the sympathy of almost all the socialist and nativist nut cases in the West. |
| Posted by: mhw 2006-04-27 11:29 |
| #2 If the CIA/VOA/USIS et al were doing their jobs, this spin would be getting a lot more play over there. Pushing this kind of thing and mockery/satire is just as important to the war effort as establishing democracy. This is a contact sport. Winning is beating the other guy, not just finishing first. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-04-27 10:22 |
| #1 I don't think they are quite to the admiting stage yet. But, they are being seen more and more as loosers, and that is good for us in the Arab world. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-04-27 09:57 |