{"id":14709,"date":"2009-09-28T18:52:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T23:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14709"},"modified":"2009-09-28T18:54:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T23:54:26","slug":"stop-this-war-before-we-win-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14709","title":{"rendered":"Stop this war before we win it!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don Surber<\/a> links to a New York Times article titled “Rethinking our Terrorist Fears<\/a>” I think the article is about how we shouldn’t fear al Qaeda anymore, but I think it’s actually about not having to rethink our strategy against terrorism;<\/p>\n

Audrey Kurth Cronin, a professor at the National War College in Washington, cites the arcs of previous violent extremist groups, from the Russian People\u2019s Will to the Irish Republican Army, that she studied for her new book, \u201cHow Terrorism Ends.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Al Qaeda is in the process of imploding,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is not necessarily the end. But the trends are in a good direction.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With Democrats currently thinking about jerking our military forces out of Afghanistan and as they navel-gaze while the generals are asking for more resources to fight the taliban and al Qaeda, experts have a simple warning;<\/p>\n

Even counterterrorism officials who agree that Al Qaeda is on the wane, for example, say the organization might well regroup if left unmolested in a lawless region in Pakistan, Afghanistan or Somalia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All of the people who said that we couldn’t solve terrorism with a military solution are being proven wrong. The folks who said we were just creating more terrorists discounted al Qaeda’s innate stupidity;<\/p>\n

\u201cRight after 9\/11, people thought, wow, America is not invincible,\u201d Mr. Mandaville said. \u201cIt was a strike against the U.S., and they were for it.\u201d But when large numbers of innocent Muslims fell victim to attacks, \u201cit became more and more difficult to romanticize Al Qaeda as fighting the global hegemons \u2014 basically, \u2018sticking it to the man.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition, Al Qaeda, for all its talk of global religious war, offered no practical solutions for local problems: unemployment, poverty, official corruption and poor education. \u201cPeople realized bin Laden didn\u2019t have anything to offer,\u201d Dr. Mandaville said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, apparently, Democrats are rushing at light speed towards a quick surrender just so they can’t accidentally win this war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don Surber links to a New York Times article titled “Rethinking our Terrorist Fears” I think … Stop this war before we win it!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}