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2005-07-25 Europe

French expert sez politics in the key to defeating jihadis

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-07-25 10:47|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Leave it to a Parisian to advocate surrender.

Posted by Raj 2005-07-25 11:04|| 2005-07-25 11:04|| Front Page Top

#2 whose ultimate defeat hinges... peaceful resolution to the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and the Palestinian territories.

A nice example of appeasement at work: we have to give Muslims what they want so they let us alone.

Sorry but the key in terrorism is the perception of the Muslim (and specially the Arab) as a superior man entitled to others having to bow before him, entitled to do what he wants to lesser beings.

It is this concept who explains Muslims indifference to say the Sudanese problem (it is only Christians and Blacks) or to atrocities perpetrated by Muslims against other Muslims, along with seething when the infidels dare to fight back (cf the reaction when America fought back after 9/11) or retake land who once was Muslim (Israel, East Timor or even Spain).

Rushing to solve the Palestinian or Tchetchnyan problems (specially if it is solven in their favour) without asking them to first punish the criminals/indemnify the victims/give back the stolen lands in Soudan, Kenya, Thailand and even Kurdistan (as an example of first class Muslims ie Arabs predating on third class Muslims ie Kurds) would only strnegthen the basic postulate of Muslim as an ubermensch entitled to jihad on the infidels.

Just like when a child picks a tantrum and the correct response is NOT giving him what he wants even if he was entitled to it, the correct response to a Beslan is to make clear that the Tchechnyans will get less than what they would have got without it. (1)

And that the harrassing of Non-Muslim populations alongside the "border" has to stop befotre we even consider teh problems of Muslims.

(1) At tyhe beginning of the Korea negotiations the Norks had the standard practice of launching a massive attack on American positions on the day they knew they would be negotiated then accuse the Americans of lying about holding the position. It worked once or perhaps twice then the Americans adopted as a standard practice not merely of repelling teh attack (they were no longrer surprised) but to advance for one mile as punishement.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-07-25 11:38|| 2005-07-25 11:38|| Front Page Top

#3 "It's difficult if not impossible to predict where the next strike will take place."

Duh! That's why waiting around to react to attacks is a loser's strategy (a la fighting terrorists with "law enforcement").

Invade Syria now.

Posted by Hyper">Hyper 2005-07-25 12:33|| 2005-07-25 12:33|| Front Page Top

#4 It's also difficult to predict where our SSBN's will strike.

Re JFM's fine comment, IIRC correctly the Eisenhower Museum's oral history collection contains a tape by a German officer captured in the Normandy campiagn. The officer recalls having asked his interrogator why the US is making war on Germany, to which the American interrogator replied, "To free you from the fantastic [in the German sense] idea that you are a race of supermen."

Posted by Matt 2005-07-25 12:40|| 2005-07-25 12:40|| Front Page Top

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