[M]uch of the jihadist movement today flourishes in regions poorly integrated into the global order during the age of Empire. The language is a means to legitimise and draw support for traditional elites seeking to retain their authority against the efforts of the modern world to impose itself. The fundamental challenge before the international system, thus, isnt to defeat the Taliban or al-Qaeda. It is to integrate these regions into the complex systems of norms that bind the modern system of states.
Britain in India, the Dutch in Indonesia and, later, the US in the Philippines, used military force to deal with the Islamist uprisings which targeted them. But they also encouraged the growth of modern nationalist movements, set up bureaucratic and administrative institutions that brought about a dramatic expansion of government, and restructured the relationship between state, political structures and civil society.
Today this is called nation-building. In Afghanistan, it almost without doubt isnt going to be anywhere near completion by 2014. But if it isnt, the end of the war there is profoundly unlikely to mean the beginning of peace.
ARTIC > In case you missed it, NATO is moving away from its original concept of "defensive" Security for Western Europe, towards all but officially supplanting/replacing the UNO as PREMIER GLOBAL ORG???
IIUC, NOT-UNLIKE-RADICAL-ISLAM, NATO'S ON A LOCAL-IS-GLOBAL WORLDWIDE "JIHAD" ALL ITS OWN???
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It's time to strip American jihadis of their citizenship
They stripped themselves of their American citizenship when they joined jihad. It's a movement that puts itself above everything else, and puts America below everything else.
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The first step would be to designate al-Alawki as an "illegal enemy combatant". Of course, that would force Obama and Holder to acknowledge the Bush DoJ policies had merit. So rather then admit error they will continue with their unconstitutional hit squads on US citizens.
How's that Nobel Peace Prize workin' for ya now?
[Washington Examiner] In justifying his decision last year to try Ahmed Ghailani in a civilian court rather than by a military commission, Attorney General Eric Holder reassured Americans that he and President B.O. knew that "failure is not an option. These are cases that have to be won." Now that Holder has failed to gain a single murder conviction of an admitted participant in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, he should resign immediately. The Ghailani verdict exposes Holder's appointment as a profound mistake with deeply damaging implications for America's security.
Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in civilian court, was charged with 285 counts, including 224 murder counts. Holder's team chose this case specifically to prove that civilian courts could convict terrorists. Instead, they succeeded only in gaining a conviction on one charge of conspiring to destroy government buildings. Ghailani was spotted by witnesses purchasing gas tanks, using al Qaeda funds, that were used in the truck bombings. The FBI found a blasting cap in his room at an al Qaeda safe house. Ghailani decamped to Pakistain the day before the bombings after lying to his family about his destination and his reason for leaving. But the jury never heard these facts because so much of the crucial evidence was barred by the judge.
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There really are some crimes that should be tried in a military court.
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The first fundamental failure was in the legal community who refuse to examine the basis of why there are one set of laws for civil affairs and another set of laws for the military and wars. One size does not fit all.
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