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To: Lane3 who wrote (97353)1/28/2005 2:35:17 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) of 793750
 
I think the Islamist threat is existential now but is obviously not yet a true military threat in the sense that it threatens to overwhelm us militarily in the near future. Its harm lies in its politics and its attacks on Western values which it ironically uses to subvert them. Our own freedoms, tolerance and liberty will be used against us as they are being used against the Western Europeans. I think cancerous is an apt description of Islamism, a disease that feeds on its host.

Dealing with this amorphous threat will be one of the most difficult things we can do because alongside the political threat there will be a growing military/terror threat which will hurt us economically in ways we cannot yet imagine.

I see this amorphous threat morphing [pun intended] into a real military threat should the Islamists' goal of a Caliphate or similar system ever be reached. However, the fact that we are dealing with a more or less amorphous threat now does in no way detract from its present existential nature.

The challenge is to somehow prevent the Islamist cancer from growing into a Caliphate or its equivalent.

And that is why I think Islamism is an existential threat now.

I suggested to you that liberal Western democracies do not rise up to these challenges as quickly as they should but, on reflection, the way to fight pre-Caliphate Islamism is not a subject which I find easy. There are military components to such a fight, to be sure, but what else I don't know. There will surely be political aspects to the struggle but I really have no clarity on what they should be or how they should be handled.
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