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To: one_less who wrote (457201)	9/11/2003 3:51:02 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Jewell, I agree. I don't think you can choose to fight "one war at a time." In view of your perspective that: >>"[The followers of Bin Ladin] have expanded to other nations and ethnicities. They are represented by African youth carrying his posters in the streets and his former enemies withing the subpopulations of Muslims. They are determined to fight against us and have committed their children's children's children to the cause, without ever having met one another or even spoken a common language,"<< what is a possible solution. It's clear that a war in Iraq that takes a huge toll on our budget, our intelligence capabilities, our military leadership, our intellectual capacity and our military and intelligence personnel, is not helping us in this battle. Do you think it's time for the Bush people to take a long step back and get a new perspective?

To: one_less who wrote (457201)	9/11/2003 3:54:27 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

This is unlike anything our history books on war have ever dealt with No this was examined 40 years ago in a brilliant essay. <font color=purple>EROSION OF THE MYTH OF THE MONOPOLY OF COERCIVE FORCE "In the past, those who no longer subscribed to the values of the dominant culture were held in check by the myth that the state possessed a monopoly on coercive force. This myth has undergone continual erosion since the end of World War II owing to the success of the strategy of guerrilla warfare, as first revealed to the French in Indochina, and later conclusively demonstrated in Algeria. Suffering as we do from what Senator Fulbright has called 'the arrogance of power,' we have been extremely slow to learn the lesson in Vietnam, although we now realize that war is political and cannot be won by military means. </font> dieoff.com The neocons continue to attempt the old strategy of world conquest by large armies. They are failing because the age of the conquering army is past. TP