Ideological War On Terror Needed -- Bill Gertz, Washington Times
The U.S. military made impressive gains on the battlefield and covertly in countering Islamist terrorists since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But the military and government at large so far have failed to strike the religiously motivated ideology behind al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists.
That’s the conclusion of a new book, “Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies From Communism to Islamism, by a group of specialists urging the U.S. government to apply the lessons of the Cold War defeat of the Soviet Union to Islamist terrorism.
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My Comment: By unwilling to brand and confront radical Islam on the platform of ideas, we have essentially abandoned this critical aspect of the conflict to the enemy.
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