We have mistakenly acted as though terrorism was a thing or a group against which one can fight. But terrorism is merely a tactic that can be used by anyone. Ancient Britons used it against the Romans, the Zionists against the British, the Algerians against the French, the French against the Nazis, the Chechens against the Russians, the Basques against the Spaniards, and so on. It is the traditional “weapon of the weak,” who resort to it when all else fails.
William R. Polk pens a devastating assessment of the current administration's dunderheaded misadventures in Iraq in the current edition of the American Conservative. With avoidable mismanagement of this magnitude, one is compelled to wonder whether the overall geopolitical objective was strategic control of the oil or intentional degradation of the U.S.?
Round and round and round it goes, down and down and down it flows....,
P6 dropping knowledge on the pustsch to recycle the tactics made notorious in the 80's in Central America.
See, no need for evil genius ever, simply long institutional memory, ammoral players, a deepening crisis, and voila, vintage ruthless tricknology.
Posted by: cnulan at January 10, 2005 03:16 PM