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July 03, 2004

For More Perspective On The Terrorists (Joe Gandelman)

The San Diego Union-Tribune's Insight Editor Robert Caldwell offered one of his as-usual insightful and blunt analysis last Sunday on the terrorism situation. You can read it here. And it's more important now in light of the new Iraqi government being in place...plus the sad news about the Marine. These may seem like (and are) acts of madness...but there is a grand plan.


Caldwell writes pap representing the usual inside-the-box thinking. The terrorists, are evil, they must be overcome, etc, et al, ad nauseum.

The terrorists of Iraq and Saudi Arabia are winning this struggle because they have the cooperation of large segments of the societies in which they live, and because you have not given them sufficient inducement to stop terrorizing people. The tactics they are using are smart, and they are probably the ones I would recommend if I were one of their tacticians. Because at this rate, they will in fact beat us and take over Iraq and Saudi Arabia in the end.

I think there is only one way to overcome terrorism. And that is with your own terrorism. Which can take one of two forms.

1) One form could be massive terrorism randomly applied to a large population of the enemy. This would be essentially a reprisal form of terrorism, sort of similar to what the nazis did to the Czech village of Lidice in 1942, after two specially trained Czech resisters, parachuted into the country by the British secret services, assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, the nazi protector of Bohemia and head of the SS-Sicherheitsdienst. The nazi response was to level Lidice and kill its entire male population.

Was that brutal? As brutal as the Germans could think up. Did it work? You bet your ass it did. At least in Czechoslovakia. The Germans had little trouble with them for the remainder of the war.

2) The second form of terrorism that could be applied is to identify the key terrorist leaders, then systematically identify, locate and kill all their relatives. Beginning with their first-born male children. The more innocent the victims are, and the more thoroughly we apply this form of counter terrorism, the less trouble we will ever have again with potential enemies.

Either method could be practiced in a manner that is simultaneously ruthless, implacable, and merciless. Remember that the object of all this is to render any present or future enemy fearful of taking part in any action against this country, its soldiers and civilians, and its national interests. If carried out with the right degree of viciousness, the Arabs themselves will be bringing in the terrorist leaders whom we seek, or will be bringing in their body parts for laboratory-level genetically foolproof identification.

If any of you are squeamish about even discussing such tactics, just remember that when and if these enemies ever get the power, that is exactly what they will do to you. And according to the iron laws of logic, you will deserve it for not having done it to them first.

You all want a nicer and more peaceful world to live in? Excellent. But first you must pacify that world. The easy way or the hard way.

Anyway, if you can't stand the idea of fighting your enemies in ways that ensure victory, then don't get involved in wars against ruthless people who have no such qualms.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Posted by Arnold Harris on July 03, 2004 at 6:02 PM