"An Obama Adviser's Not-So-Bright Idea for Winning in Afghanistan," by John McCormack for the Weekly Standard, February 20:
President Obama named Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official and Brooking Institution scholar, to head up a review team for overhauling U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan. Via the Christian Science Monitor, a big part of Riedel's grand strategy for winning in Afghanistan is, um, securing a peace deal between the Palestinians and Israel:Ultimately, the solution in Afghanistan may involve solving the age-old conflict between the Arab states and Israel, says administration adviser Riedel in a book published by the Brookings Institution, a foreign-policy think tank, last year. Al Qaeda, and the Taliban to some extent, continue to be motivated by the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians, Riedel argues. If that conflict is resolved, Al Qaeda may go away."If Palestinians choose to make peace with Israel, the most fundamental point of Al Qaeda's narrative becomes irrelevant," Riedel writes. "In other words, making peace between Israelis and Arabs is not only wise policy in its own right, but also an extremely useful strategy for pulling the rug out from under Al Qaeda."
A few points:
1. The conflict between Palestinians and Israel is not "the most fundamental point of Al Qaeda's narrative"--see bin Laden's 1996 declaration of war against the United States. He cites a number of grievances regarding flashpoints throughout the Muslim world. Does the Palestinian issue really motivate jihadists in Afghanistan/Pakistan more than the conflict, much closer to home, with India?
2. The deep theological/ideological underpinnings for jihad aren't going to go away if the Palestinians agree to a peace deal. Raymond Ibrahim's recent review of The Mind of Jihad serves as useful reminder of this fact.
3. Is there any indication that Palestinians are going to "choose to make peace with Israel" in the near future? It seems delusional think that Hamas will choose to lay down its arms.[...]
If one of Obama's top advisers thinks that holding Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at Camp David will lead to victory in Afghanistan, then we may be in bigger trouble than we thought.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Obama Adviser's Final Solution: Solve Arab-Israeli Conflict, End Global Jihad
This is just another, more subtle, way of blaming the Jews. If Jews weren't a problem in the Middle East, Islamic radicals would not be causing problems.
Ridiculous.
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The ago-old conflict between the Jews and the Arabs started when the Jews told Mohammed he was off his bloody rocker and no way way were they going to accept that any God or angel would talk to anyone like him. Mohammed refuted their argument by cutting off their heads, they had nothing to say in response. The conflict will only be solves when one or the other side is beat into bloody submission. It has gone on for nearly 1400 years, it almost stopped when the Ottoman empire was beaten to a pulp and it was only revived in 1973 by our Saudi friends when the oil money started flowing in. In terms of historical time that oil money will stop flowing soon enough and Arabs being Arabs they made sure that none of that money stayed in or was used to improve any of their countries. When the flow stops their leaders will quickly disappear into their luxury estates, none of which are in the Arab world. Then they will do all to stop the jihad because a major target is going to be the looters.
Without oil the West does not give a damn for the whole of the middle east, they will not give a hoot how Israel defends itself and defend itself it will
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