Thursday, February 01, 2007

Winds of War: Where’s the Blueprint Against Global Jihad?

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

That’s a popular quote of Lewis Carroll and is a handy thought to keep in mind with our struggle with Islamism. Jeffrey Imm at the Counter Terrorism blog said, “The American government has failed to collectively use [its] formidable brain-power 5+ years after the attack by Jihadists on the American homeland to develop a truly strategic plan to fight the global threat of Jihad and Islamist extremism.”

Over five years later and we still don’t know what road we are on.

What kind of war are we fighting? It’s not a cold one, nor a hot one in the traditional definition of the term. I define a hot war as one fighting directly – and on the ground – to defeat those who are promoting and advancing the enemy ideology. In the current case against Islamism, those are the Shia and Sunni states in the Middle East and Pakistan that support the Islamism ideology. The war against Islamism is about wiping out the Islamist ideology, not just Al-Qaeda or any other terrorist organization. Fighting only terrorists means the war would have no end. Only by eliminating and defeating the governments, organizations and individuals who support the Islamist ideology can we be victorious.

Again, what kind of war are we fighting? Well, we’re not just one but two – a Warm War and a Cool War. The Warm War, or an asymmetrical war, is one where both parties do not combat each other within the same 'time-frame', e.g. in cases of guerilla groups that attack the opponent by surprise and at unexpected locations – 9-11 is an example. The jihadists want us to fight this Warm War and slowly bleed us of our troops, wealth and freedoms.

The Cool War is one where an enemy works to undermine the will of the enemy with intimidation, infiltration and disinformation means. It’s the war being waged against our very culture and its most valued principles in an attempt to make our culture submit to the Islamist ideology.

The weapon of choice for the insurgents of the Warm War is the use of terrorism. The weapon of choice for the insurgents of the Cool War is the imposition of Shariah law.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"The American government has failed to collectively use [its] formidable brain-power 5+ years after the attack by Jihadists on the American homeland to develop a truly strategic plan to fight the global threat of Jihad and Islamist extremism.”

Over five years later and we still don’t know what road we are on.

Let me point out the elephant in the room. We do know, and it does not require formidable brain power. Round them up and killemall like what Ethiopia did (notice how effective that was). No one, however, seems to want to climb down from his/her 21st century moral high horse for the obvious 7th century way of dealing with 7th century barbarism. If there is no political will, then use mercenaries covertly behind enemy lines for that fig leaf of plausible deniability. Why does everyone pretend that meat comes from supermarkets?

dontdrinkthetaqiyya said...

"The Cool War is one where an enemy works to undermine the will of the enemy with intimidation, infiltration and disinformation means. It’s the war being waged against our very culture and its most valued principles in an attempt to make our culture submit to the Islamist ideology."

Yep, and intimidation covers a lot of territory:

- playing "good Muz/bad Muz"
- playing the victim (good Muz)
- playing the bully (bad Muz)
- using the tenets of golden calf political correctness against us
- fake earnestness about "liberty" and "freedom"

Please let us never, never forget THE TRUE MOTTO OF ISLAM:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

"When we are weak,
We appeal to you for "Liberty" and for "Freedom,"
Because these are your principles.

"When we are Strong,
We shall deny you these,
Because they are not OUR principles."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .