7.08.2005
London
I feel like I need to say something about what happened yesterday in London, but I don't know what. It was a terrible thing to happen and unfortunately inevitable. The West is trying to win the "War on Terror" using conventional means - boots on the ground, airstrikes, etc. That's not how the game is played anymore. Over at Defense and the National interest, they talk about 4th Generation warfare - insurgency warfare. While we're trying to control territory (Iraq, Afganistan) - they're trying to control minds, both of the Muslim world and of US and UK (and other Western) citizens. Guess who's winning so far?
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Yeah, I haven't been able to come up with anything to write about London either. Sad that it happened, but you just kinda gotta shrug your shoulders and move on, right?
I mean, hell, I grew up reading about all the bombings and suicide attacks in Israel. You never saw it mess with their daily lives or anything. Pick yourselves up and go about your business.
And yes, this war is certainly not winnable the way we're fighting it now. It's a war of ideas, not territory. They don't want to take over our country. They don't want money or power. They simply want us dead. There is no reasoning with a mindset like that.
You can't bomb it into oblivion. It doesn't matter how many troops you send to whatever country, or how many bad guys you kill.
You can't kill an idea.
You can't kill an idea.
I think that's the strategy Batman used.
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