Terrorism Cannot Win: This is Why

Asharq Al Awsat (Arabic Paper) ^ | Amir Taheri

[quesney]

And this wonderful essay, folks, gets to the heart of the definition of terrorism -- to commit, by stealth and by violence upon unarmed, unsuspecting people what you're unable or unable to achieve by other honest, direct, open and/or peaceful means. It's no exaggeration to call it an assault on civilization.

[quesney]

And this wonderful essay, folks, gets to the heart of the definition of terrorism -- to commit, by stealth and by violence upon unarmed, unsuspecting people what you're unwilling or unable to achieve by other honest, direct, open and/or peaceful means. It's no exaggeration to call it an assault on civilization.

[goldstategop]

Terrorist regimes eventually disintegrate - and in the best case scenario, terrorists fall far short of seizing power in the state. They have nothing to offer the body politic and lacking a positive ideology they can't transmit their ideals from one generation to the next. The current terrorist cult of homocide bombings is spectacular but in the end is destined for history's graveyard. Keep it in mind when discussing Iran, Syria, the Hezbollah, Al Qaeda and future terrorist movements. The noise generated by terrorists is more impressive than the dismal reality in their failure to attain power anywhere but Iran and even there, the regime is living on borrowed time.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Khashayar]

Thanks for your kind words!

Iranians love the USA

[TASMANIANRED]

bump

[nuconvert]

Very Good article, pong

[Valin]

The existence of extremists moves the middle in the direction of the extremists. Hence the dhimmification of countries in the path of the Islamic invasion.


Where do you see this happening?

[Zeroisanumber]

BTW, If one replaces "terrorist" with "Leftist", this article suffices quite well in explaining the international and American Leftist too.

Nah, they aren't lazy, they just don't have enough directness in their character. I know a number of leftists who work very very hard.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The point was that they are comapably lazy in their argumentation. Being industrious in fomenting the implementation of a poorly (lazily) constructed argument is not the same thing.