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Originally Posted by pj67coll
There is no real "war on terror". The whole point of the generals thesis is that this is a civilizational clash that has to be persued to the fullest. If that means being in Iraq for the next 50 to 100 years so be it. If it means war with Iran instead of or in addition to being in Iraq then so be it. But to pretend that you can just run away and play traffic cop every time a "terrorist" pops up someplace is to fatally misunderstand the situation. Terrorism is simply the tactic used by our opponents as it's the most effective one at present. As such the term "war on terror" is as misleading and silly as the term "war on blitzkrieg" would have been in 1940.
- Peter.
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Correct this struggle has been going on for a very long time, since the Holy Roman Empire at least. Its probably not going to end in our life times either. This clash of civilizations is very active now because they have a ton of oil money and can afford to be. We need to attack the problem at the root, IE cut off the oil funds.