« What it's Like to be a Cop in Fallujah | Main | "The Fallujan people are gonna have to stand up on their own and tell these people, 'get out, we're done.'"

An Interview with a Civil Affairs Marine »

I'm receiving new information that will influence this week's promised posts.

In the meantime, in her resignation from Dean's World, Mary Madigan makes a good point about the Global War on Terror:

I think we're fighting a bunch of gangsters. Why do they ('they' defined as the military and financial infrastructure of the billion dollar underground terrorist network - not Islam) hate us? Because they're greedy pigs who resent anyone who has more money, power and influence than they do, and they're willing to manipulate and kill people to get it. The fact that they're using morality and religion as their cover makes them even more vile than most who have gone before them, but that shouldn't change our focus. We can't fight gangsters with philosophy, religious outreach programs and political correctness.

We also can't fight them by classifying everyone who is in their religious group, or everyone who has kissed the Don's hand, as the focus of the problem. Both the Islamophobes and the Islamophobe-watchers do that. This leads to poorly conceived, poorly planned strategy. If we refrained from shutting down the Mafia because we were afraid that doing so would offend all Italians, Gotti would be president and Gambini would be head of state. If we fought the Mafia by arresting everyone in Little Italy, pulling over every olive oil truck and raiding Arthur Avenue, the result might have been the same.

Posted by Bill at March 7, 2007 08:28 AM | TrackBack (7)

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.indcjournal.com/cgi-bin/mt/dafrules/tapaz.cgi/2955

Comments

Posted by: mary at March 9, 2007 11:17 PM

Posted by: Bill from INDC at March 10, 2007 12:54 AM