Atlantic Monthly: war on terrorism

The War on Terrorism http://www.theatlantic.com/waronterror/index.htm

A collection of features from The Atlantic Monthly and Atlantic Unbound, in reverse chronological order

The Wrong Lesson Our counterinsurgency efforts abroad are starting to resemble the British Empire's. This could mean gains now—and trouble later. By Caroline Elkins (July/August 2005. The Atlantic Monthly)

Gas Pains One of the U.S. military's greatest vulnerabilities in Iraq is its enormous appetite for fuel. The insurgents have figured this out. By Robert Bryce (May 2005. The Atlantic Monthly)

Ten Years Later 'Then the second wave of al-Qaeda attacks hit America.' A leading expert on counterterrorism imagines the future history of the war on terror. A frightening picture of a country still at war in 2011. By Richard A. Clarke (January/February 2005. The Atlantic Monthly)

The Elephantiasis of Reason The CIA's brand of rational analysis is perpetually half right in a way that makes it completely wrong. By David Brooks. (January/February 2003, The Atlantic Monthly)

Homeland Insecurity A top expert says America's approach to protecting itself will only make matters worse. Forget 'foolproof' technology—we need systems designed to fail smartly. By Charles C. Mann. (September 2002, The Atlantic Monthly)

Et el.

Well we have finally hit on something that I can agree with you on.

This war on terror is going to go on a long time. It has been going on since 1947 at least.

The seeds of the current war on terror started with the Balfour Declaration to Lord Rothschild (maybe the loans of vast sums of money to the English government had something to do with it, I don't know), and the English Foreign Ministry making he same promise to the House of Saud for their support against the Ottoman Turks in that war.

The match to the explosive seeds sown in 1917 occurred after World War Two, because of the Balfour Declaration and the Allied Guilt over the deaths of million of Jews in the NAZI death camps, the U.N. gave away land it didn't own to survivors of those NAZI death camps for the foundation of the state of Israel.

Today in 2005 the original Palestinian-Israel dispute as almost nothing to do with the war on terror as it has moved on to a world stage. Do the attacks in Indonesia on Christians on East Timor, or the bombings in Malaysia, and the Philippians, the civil war in Sri Lanka, the dispute over Kashmir, the slaughter of Christians in the Sudan, the Eritrea-Ethiopia conflict, the Somalian civil war, have any thing to do with Israel? The short answer is no. Yet these acts are all part of the global war on terror. (The East African problems are more complex than just Christian moslem friction, but the Moslem expansion has a lot to do with it.)

What we are seeing is nothing more than the revitalization of Islam as a world force. This revitalization has been fueled by the twin gases of Petrol-dollars Dollars, (with no plan to develop other assets to spend them on) and the clan/family based male dominated culture of the Moslem world.

In the Arab mind the United States has assumed the mantle of hatred that was formerly held by Israel. Even if Israel went away tomorrow we would still have problems. The Islamics are now demanding the return of Andalusia (Spanish peninsula) as the home land of Moslem peoples. When are they going to get around to the Balkans, and southern France, not to mention Greece and the Aegean Islands.

This struggle is going to be long and bloody, with two possible out comes. Genocide of all the Arab peoples or the eventually collapse of all societies into a barbarism reminiscent of the barbarism at the fall of the Roman Empire.

The Pope is exactly right!

Some recent edition of the Atlantic also had an article addressing the Islamicization of Europe. They're taking the place over. It's thought that some countries in Europe will have Muslim majorities by 2080 or so, and that's even *without* the addition of Turkey to the European Community. Italy would be experiencing actual shrinkage of its population today were it not for immigration; they probably will experience some shrinkage anyway before long.