July 13, 2005
View Comments | Post CommentWesley Clark on fighting terrorism
USA Today printed a letter by Wesley Clark yesterday about how to fight terrorism.
He's got some good points, especially:
- Taking out the "state sponsors" of terrorism (governments and powerful people friendly to terrorists) will not work, since terrorism is becoming more and more decentralized.
- We must fight the ideology, not just the current terrorists.
The most poignant thing in the article (and the only real admission of this fact I've heard yet by anyone with any sort of power in this country) was
But fighting terrorism at home isn't just a matter of "killing terrorists." Terrorists aren't born that way. They are created by their interaction with their surroundings. To win this war, we must defeat the ideology of terrorism, depriving angry young people of their ability to justify their hateful actions in the name of Allah.
Posted at July 13, 2005 5:53 PM | Comments (0)
