Posted on 06/14/2006 3:03:05 PM PDT by Dark Skies
You said -- "For a different point of view, see this article, from which this excerpt is taken: [ ... ]"
I don't have any doubt that Christianity will be around. That's because Jesus Christ is coming back.
However, even He asked if there would be "faith" when He returned. I suspect that we're talking about 10-20% of the world as Christian. It's small enough to be reduced to "dhimmitude" -- with Muslims being an overwhelming majority (soon) -- with their birthrates going through the roof. There's no question that demographics favor the Islamics. And with Jesus questioning "faith" upon His return -- that lends credence to that thought, too.
Regards,
Star Traveler
This was a good article. But one thing struck me ironically:
"They will not listen. They will ignore instructions. They will overlook details. They will be overemotional. They will sulk and feud. They will create a mental narrative, romantic and wild, a Bruce Willis feature with themselves in the starring role, and act on that rather than any stodgy plan. And when things go wrong, they will panic."
Reminds me of the type who hang around DU, which, although we laugh at times, peole like that can cross some threshhold where violence seems the right action.
It makes me glad that I am not 15 or 20 now. I expect darker days ahead.
Mr. Dunn raises some interesting points here. I liken the current situation to the fight against 'organized crime'. What I mean is this. When a criminal organization gets started there's always someone who's the brains behind the operation.
Behind that person are the followers. Now if the 'brain' is really smart he'll avoid capture for quite some time. Look at the mafioso trials of the last decade as proof of this assertion. The so called Dapper Don John Gotti managed to avoid imprisonment for a couple of decades through a combination of smarts and ruthlessness.
His followers however were frequently scooped up, tried, convicted, and incarcerated. That's not to say Mr. Gottis organization isn't still dangerous, they are. But they're a shadow of their former selves.
The Colombian drug gangs are another example. The stupid, careless, inexperienced members are frequently sacrificed to protect the higher ups but eventually if authorities are persistent even they fall. I offer as evidence Pablo Escobar for this assertion.
But what can also happen is that once the really stupid and the moderately smart get rounded up or killed eventually you're left with two things: the absolute dregs a la Richard Ried or very intelligent bad guys who won't be easy at all to catch a la OBL.
Leaderless resistance used to be discussed around here frequently back in the dark days of Clintons rule. It can be quite effective if practiced by dedicated, experienced, smart, and ruthless individuals who adhere strictly to their plans and then keep their mouths shut.
Fortunately for us, the jihadi freaks we're now fighting seem to lack more than one of those qualities. They may be ruthless and dedicated but they lack operational experience and they seem genetically incapable of keeping their pie holes closed under any circumstances. Quite the opposite in fact.
You never saw Gottis thugs making videotapes bragging about their latest criminal 'score' but the jihadis just can't seem to stop doing that. Every time they release one of the home movies they've made of the latest atrocity they've committed we get one step closer to capturing or killing them. It may very well be that the Zarq mans latest little video circle jerk is what got him killed.
Oh there are a few bright ones at the top left. OBL and Mullah Omar are examples. But by and large we are degrading their network, and that's what it will always be no matter what the 4GW folks think, fairly efficiently. The stupid ones are being rolled up rather rapidly.
The smart ones are being hunted mercilessly and killed or captured.
The trick will be to keep knocking out the mouthbreathers as soon as we find them, continue killing the smart ones once we've identified them, and preventing any further growth in the quite correctly identified epidemic.
We have the tools. We just need to make sure we don't lose our nerve. To 'go wobbly' as Margaret Thatcher put it could very prove fatal to Western Civilization.
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Interesting read here. Makes you think of the cuts from Zarqawi's last video classic with the guy burning his hand.
You said -- "We have the tools. We just need to make sure we don't lose our nerve. To 'go wobbly' as Margaret Thatcher put it could very prove fatal to Western Civilization."
The problem is with the sheer numbers who are available, ready and willing to do the work. With the percentages quoted, by other terrorist experts, of the total Muslim population, that leaves approximately 270 million terrorists.
So, to lose, would be to "go wobbly" before you get each individual terrorist (around possibly 270 million of them [comparable to the entire population of the United States]) -- one-by-one. That's a long haul. That's why I would refer to it as the "100 Years War".
I hope everyone is ready for perpetual war...
Regards,
Star Traveler
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