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July 08, 2005
Keeping The One True Goal In Focus
Daily Demarche highlights an article by Efraim Halevi in the Jerusalem Post. Halevi exhibits the usual clear-eyed thinking one would expect from a former chief of the Mossad (thanks to Coming Anarchy):
The multiple, simultaneous explosions that took place today on the London transportation system were the work of perpetrators who had an operational capacity of considerable scope. They have come a long way since the two attacks of the year 1998 against the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar-Es-Salaam, and the aircraft actions of September 11, 2001.
There was careful planning, intelligence gathering, and a sophisticated choice of timing as well as near-perfect execution. We are faced with a deadly and determined adversary who will stop at nothing and will persevere as long as he exists as a fighting terrorist force.[...]
The rules of combat must be rapidly adjusted to cater to the necessities of this new and unprecedented situation, and international law must be rewritten in such a way as to permit civilization to defend itself. [...]
The aim of the enemy is not to defeat western civilization but to destroy its sources of power and existence, and to render it a relic of the past. It does not seek a territorial victory or a regime change; it wants to turn western civilization into history and will stop at nothing less than that.
It will show no mercy or compassion and no appreciation for these noble values when practiced by us. This does not mean that we can or should assume the norms of our adversaries, nor that we should act indiscriminately. It does mean that the only way to ensure our safety and security will be to obtain the destruction, the complete destruction, of the enemy.
The emphases are mine. The last sentence it the most important, because I believe that in the final analysis the current hand-wringing over the silence of the "good" Muslims is largely irrelevant. Their were plenty of basically decent people in Germany during the Nazi years; they probably wouldn't have personally thrown the cyanide pellets into the gas chambers, but yet they didn't "speak out" either. In the end, we had to completely eradicate the Nazi regime down to the roots. Analysis of the actions of the German populace rightly came later.
Of course the task now is much more difficult because of the trans-national character of our adversary. But as Mr. Halevi points out, we must seek out and completely destroy the roots of this barbarous ideology if we are to continue the life to which we are accustomed.
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