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Plan B on Terror

(Washington Times) Christopher Brown - The U.S. is reassessing its strategy for fighting terrorists with a view to targeting middle and lower levels of terrorist networks. Such reevaluation is routine in wars and represents a flexibility needed now more than ever. But the new strategy discussed would not lead to victory. It will not dry up the manpower reserve from which terrorist leaders draw followers. It is the low- and mid-level people, not the leaders, who volunteer for suicide/martyrdom operations. Death is unlikely to dampen their zeal. Any strategy is doomed from the outset that does not directly engage and discredit the Wahhabi, Deobandi (Taliban), and Khomeini schools of Islamicism, which share many characteristics and are the fountainheads of Islamic terrorism and ideology.
2005-07-15 00:00:00
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