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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (182616)2/14/2004 2:03:26 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1576076
 
Bin Laden may not be cornering the rap market just yet, but this only goes to show how the al-Qaeda brand has taken in the collective consciousness of many. A few months ago, the Rand Corp - a think-tank sympathetic to the US industrial-military complex that boasts Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld as one of its former directors - published an analysis of al-Qaeda by Bruce Hoffman. This was the heart of the system debating whether al-Qaeda was a concept or a virus; an army or an ideology. The author compared al-Qaeda to a bunch of fast, easily adaptable sharks. In essence, al-Qaeda was defined as an indestructible enemy because it's impossible to circumscribe it precisely. By describing the threat as inexorable, the Rand Corp could then justify relentless, inexorable repression.

This is the way in which the Bush administration also sees it. But is pure repression working against an al-Qaeda now configured as a mutant virus - a constellation of autonomous cells constantly morphing into new shapes and tactics?

Really disturbing article......its the whole might makes right thesis that's in play right now and al Qaeda is making the best of it. What worries me is what happens when Bush and his cohorts begin to realize we don't have enough might to make everything right. That's when things will get very dangerous.

On another note......how many more bombings of Iraqi police stations will the Shiite leaders endure before they DEMAND we leave?

Rebel assault routs Iraqi security forces in Fallujah, killing at least 20 and freeing prisoners

By Mariam Fam

boston.com

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