Convictions V. [Conclusion]

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"Where is the front? The front is where ever there is one White Guard counter-revolutionary, where ever there is one foreign interventionist, where ever there is one sentimental bourgeois poet!! That is where the front is!!" - - The Red Bolshevik commissar Barsky from the movie - - "Dr. Zhivago."

"When one has to pick between a strong horse and a weak horse, one will naturally pick the strong horse." - - Osama bin Laden.

"If someone says they mean to kill you, BELIEVE THEM!!" - - Holocaust survivor.

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." - - Eisenhower.

It is generally recognized that the first step in solving any problem is to recognize that the problem exists in the first place.

Secondly it is also recognized that the effort to try to "understand" a problem seems to suggest a willingness to SOLVE the problem, what ever the nature of the problem may be. This is as true with regard to the problem of the jihadi enemy as it would be for any other run-of-the-mill problem.

A problem [jihadi violence] that most folks in the "western world" have yet to properly comprehend. At least in my own estimation. My own perception of the jihadi threat is that the "west" faces an enemy much more potent than we realize. Has a potential capacity for placing our society and entire civilization in real mortal danger.

Those in the "west" must NOT perceive this current war against Al Qaeda as being a "war" that will be fought and won in the sense that say the two World Wars were fought and won. There WILL NOT BE a period of hostilities, followed by a defeat of a prostrate enemy, with the "west" dictating terms to the vanquished, followed by a long and protracted period of "peace". This will not be and should not be expected.

Expect rather a level of hostilities to last for decades, perhaps for the remainder of the century!!! A generations long war!! NOT something persons in the "west" are accustomed to!!

In this type of Fourth Generational Warfare [4GW], it is not so much physical strength that counts as does mental wherewithal.

The jihadi knows they will never have at their disposal long-range jet bombers, missiles, aircraft carriers, battalions of heavy armor and artillery, etc.

[don't however, preclude the use of weapons of mass destruction [WMD] at some time in the future by jihadists of some stripe.]

Rather, the jihadi will have to resort to and rely upon methods of warfare that maximize their strength. Strengths that the jihadis will allow them to win in the LONG-RUN.

Methods that are multi-faceted and indicative of the 4GW warriors and their fighting groups. And, if not Al Qaeda, some other group will take up where the former leaves off. Multi-faceted methods to include but not limited to:

* Terrorism in all it's manifestations, across all boundaries of the nation-state system. Including the use of WMD or the threat thereof.

* Illegal and legal mass immigration with an intention to change the character of a target society.

* Smuggling of illegal drugs and other contraband. Saps the will and strength of a target society while funding jihadi warfare all at the same time.

* Psychological warfare with the intention of intimidating the target society to the point where resistance is deemed futile.

A type of warfare, 4GW, where the "front" is present in many places, in many forms, and all at once!

Especially important to the jihadi in this struggle against the "west" is their perception that most of all this 4GW represents more than anything else a battle of "strength of wills". It is here that the jihadi believes they possess an overwhelming advantage.

Which brings us back to the incident involving the two journalists.

In the eyes of the Islamic ummah [nation], the "west" breeds weak horses, while the ummah breeds strong horses. NOT necessarily strength in the physical sense, but strength in the moral and mental sense. The jihadi is confident of his beliefs and dedicated to his religion and it's precepts. Has mental certitude while at the same time he PERCEIVES those in the "west" as lacking in this regard.

"Until we non-Muslims are willing to refuse to be cowed by these Muslim terrorists......until we are willing to give our lives (as they are) for what we believe in (our faith)...we will lose this 'war on terror'!"

"While the concept of forced conversion might seem to many an artifact of another millennia it should instead serve as a warning to those who seek to minimize the danger represented by militant Islam and the fanatical nature of those who seek to advance this theology of totalitarian hate by force of terror."

"They [the jihadis] didn't make it [a video of the forced conversions] for face value. They made it to show the whole Muslim world, via satellite television, what wimps these Westerners are. That they'll do anything at all to save their lives, that they don't think twice about it. That is the substance of most Islamo-fascist propaganda: that the West consists of straw men, of men without chests, of men easily pushed over."

And with the case of the two journalists, lacking in a shameful and to the jihadi, a disgraceful manner. The "west" is chaff, without backbone, and will be an easy mark in the long run, for the resourceful, flexible, resilient and persistent jihadi movement. Time is ON THEIR SIDE, SAYS THE JIHADI [time here measured in generations and many decades!!]

The front? Where is the front?? Where ever there are two journalists willing to convert! That is where the front is!!

coolbert.