The Tortured Rhetoric of the Reactionary Left
On May 5, 12:53*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 5 May 2009 10:45:12 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
West Has Already Won War with Islam, Says Leading Geopolitical Analyst
Posted Apr 30, 2009 07:30am EDT by Aaron Task in Newsmakers
Related: ^DJI, ^GSPC, SPY, DIA, EEM, TUR
With the Taliban on the march in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden still
unaccounted for, attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq rising again and
Afghanistan a quagmire, it would seem the war against jihadist Islam
is only accelerating in intensity.
But what if it's already all over but the shouting?
"It is debatable whether the U.S. has actually won the U.S.-jihadist
war - but it has certainly achieved its strategic goals," - preventing
another 9/11 and avoiding jihadist uprising in the Arab world, George
Friedman, founder of STRATFOR, writes in his latest book The Next 100
Years. "The U.S. has succeeded, not so much in winning the war as in
preventing the Islamists from winning and, from a geopolitical
perspective, that is good enough."
Friedman expands up this theory in the accompany video, where we
discuss the following:
* *• * * What he calls the "fundamental weakness" of the Muslim world.
* *• * * The likely endgame in Afghanistan, where he says the U.S. "cannot
win."
* *• * * The potential for a jihadist uprising in Turkey, which Friedman
sees as one of the great regional powers of the 21st Century.
* *• * * The likelihood of Pakistan falling into Taliban control, if it
hasn't already.
* *• * * The "real" meaning of Iran's rhetorical threats.
* *• * * Whether Bin Laden is better captured and put on trial, dead, or
alive and isolated. And whether Al Qaeda is still able to carry out
major terrorist attacks today.
Bush Iraq war and it's shifted focus away from Afghanistan totally
destabilized South Asia and the Middle east. It's directly responsible
for the mess sin Pakistan where we need to fear radical muslims
getting control of a nuclear arsenal. It's expanded Iranian influence
in the region, and radicalized vast swathes of Islam. And this after
we had virtual total world support after 9-11.
His hubris will cost us for generations.
all of that is correct.
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