Are we at war with Islam?

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by tk27

Yes and it appears that because AQ leadership played too much of a central role the plot was broken up. They have and will learn from these mistakes. Cells will continue more and more to be homegrown and self-organizing, inspired by bin Laden’s movement but not under its control.

What state actively sponsors AQ? The Iranian’s support Hezbollah as do the Syrians (some would say that after Syria’s withdrawal from Lebanon ’04 they lost influence to restrain Hez and this explains Hezbollah’s recent belligerence), Libya cut ties with terrorists for foreign investment, and Saddam supported Hamas but not AQ.

Refusing to distinguish between AQ and Hamas, Hezbollah and other Islamist groups only benefit them. It does them the benefit of aggregating them all together, this allows them to constitute themselves as a global jihad and only validates this to the Islamic world. This is inherently counterproductive to any wise strategy designed to disaggregate a global insurgency. (See LTC. Killcullen’s Countering Global Insurgency)

I have in PDF (too big to attach) James Fallows recent article in The Atlantic, We Win.: A New Strategy For The Fight Against Terror. It is very thought provoking and I think a good assessment of where we are and where we are headed. It draws from Brian Michael Jenkins at RAND (I believe a QP also), LTC Killcullen, Michael Scheuer, Peter Bergen, Martin van Crevald, Bruce Hoffman, Daniel Benjamin, and James Woosley among others. I would be interested to hear everyone’s thoughts on it. I could make a summary of it as well as find a host for it if there is interest for a thread.

TK27 and Solid,

I've had enough..... this discussion will not be led by two 20 year old's that have read one Rand paper on terrorism and think it's the answer to global terrorism.

There are men on this board that have not only hunted and killed these terrorist cowards but have also written doctrine on how to fight the global war on terrorism. I defer to their thoughts on the subject and not to two kids that have never traveled any further than the raisins in their cereal bowls.

I am no longer interested in your opinions as they do not hold water, your open source information is lacking in depth and history. We've also answered many of the questions you seem to continue to post.

Tell you what after you've spent a decade or so hunting the terrorist cowards you can again post on this subject, or when you get your PhD in political science or middle eastern affairs. Until then you are both done on this thread.

You may still ask questions, period.

Team Sergeant

Tired of the sheeple telling the hunters how to capture or kill the wolf.

edit to add:

Oh and one more thing to put some of what you both have posted in perspective;

While serving in Desert Storm we found out that saddam and his coward armies were placing explosives on the oil wells and were going to blow them in the event of hostilities.

I remember reading a very authoritative think-tank “paper” stating that if saddam were allowed to blow those oil wells (about 600) that it would take decades to put them out and that it would be the beginning of the end of the world as we knew it.

Red Adair and his men put out the fires in a few months.

I don’t put much credence in think-tank papers written by those that have never actually met or have any experience with the beast they often write about.