Reading July 25th's Arnaud de Borchgrave's column reveals the entire tottering structure of american intelligence, and diplays why it's manifest failures have occured.
De Borchgrave, who is certainly no anti american, certainly IS a 'realpolitik' believer. He reveals the intelligence structure of west is entirely stuck in this mode.
This posits among other things, that we can affect what others do as if they are locked in a zero sum game and have no plans of their own outside the rules. This entire moribund outlook failed since 1979 to reveal any of the worldshaking events that altered strategic reality.
Khomeini 1979
Afghanistan Jihadism 80's
Fall of the USSR 1989
To name just a few.
The article in question here has a thesis which runs something like this ..if Hizballah has more influence after this set of events, they win, we lose, and Israel should have pursued some other course than warfare.
This is a delusionary belief than microfine adjustments by the 'west' prevent more recruitment to racist theological asbolutist aggressive imperialism for allah (ie murder in larger and larger numbers).
Arnaud... nothing we do will overcome the armed dawa forces short of KILLING THEM, since their belief makes it compulsory to do away with us. This fantasy that thru some tactic of ours, we can overcome a quranic STRATEGY is a loser which will cost many lives.
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Is that a Final Solution being called for?
If so I disagree. If realpolitik can deliver a set of actions that shears people from their religion without killing them it is better to follow realpolitik. Disrupting the flow of money to the religious establishments as a way of cooling zeal might work.
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