Thursday, April 08, 2004
How to fight the Qaedasphere?
I don't know, but the first step is surely understanding the enemy, which Bush, Condi, Rummy, Cheney and the rest of the gang have consistently failed to do.
Leaderless resistance, eh? Why the heck can't the wingers understand that?
Lots of other good stuff in this article. Get the Salon day pass.
"It's a loose network of the willing," a Marine colonel lately returned from Baghdad told me Wednesday. "We are a hierarchy, so we look for other hierarchies to fight. But it's clear that what we are facing in Iraq is network-based. There's no one leader or leadership -- just like the first Palestinian intifada against the Israelis. That was a network of local groups who were able to give the appearance of a national movement. You can deal with that, but it takes maybe 10 years. We can't even plan for the next two months."
(via Alexander Cockburn in Salon)
Leaderless resistance, eh? Why the heck can't the wingers understand that?
Lots of other good stuff in this article. Get the Salon day pass.