GWOT News from Afghanistan

There is a Global War on Terror. In spite of President Barack Hussein Obama’s denial of a war he has at least sent his version of a troop surge. Here is some info from the AP that starts out writing about victory in Marjah, Afghanistan. The article writes about the strategy of “clear, hold” and “build.”

Following the victory story the author injects some reality of war. I doubt the purpose of the reality info is used to build an American affinity for our troops and other NATO troops, rather I suspect the info is used to confirm that Leftist appeasement encourages America to abandon Afghanistan without an impact of victory. Not that a Western minded America will ever have the cajones to subdue Islamic terrorism properly, yet a goal of “building” is a good one. This is so even if Islamic rules of law (the dreaded Sharia Law) are prevalent. “Building” should mean building an alliance whether it is a pseudo-democratic nation or despotic pro-American elite.

The bad news is homicidal-suicide Islamic terrorists are infiltrating into NATO/Afghan government controlled areas killing people to terrorize them into supporting Taliban/al-Qaeda style Islam.

JRH 2/28/10

The Jihadist Strategic Dilemma

Here is an interesting feel good analysis of the AfPak portion of the Global War on Terror (GWOT).

George Friedman writes that the Taliban/al Qaeda fractured terrorist consortium has failed in the last eight years of war with the USA. Friedman admits America cannot make a central strike on the terrorists for the very reason that they are fractured and not centralized. On the other hand the Sunni Islam terrorists failed in their objective the last eight years.

Al Qaeda in particular felt a very public attack on American soil would show that American is not an all powerful kafir. They hoped an international display of a successful Muslim attack would inspire Sunni Muslims of dar al-Islam would rise up and through off the hegemony of fitna Muslim governments that kowtow to Western interests. Al Qaeda/Ikhwan theorists had nations like Egypt and Saudi Arabia in mind. According to Friedman the irony of the strategy led these despotic governments to gravitate toward American security to bolster their regimes against jihadists’ designs.

You can read Friedman’s analysis HERE.

JRH 12/8/09