#2 The international community, that much vaunted body of sophisticates who claim to have the best approach for peace in the 21st century, have heads of brick. No matter how much new evidence piles up to contradict their views, they still repeat this inane mantra, like the rocking faithful reading from their book of self-hypnosis:
"Accommodate them and terrorists will lessen hostility towards us. Aggressively attack them and terrorists will increase hostility towards us."
Accommodation, attack-it makes little difference on what terrorists do; they will be hostile and attack us whenever opportunity presents itself. The only difference that exists is in the timing of our beginning to fight unrestrained and in earnest and how that timing effects our chances of defeating the enemy. The rest is mere vain, disorienting theory. |