The U.S. Govt has less Arabic, Farsi, Pashtoon speakers than it has BAND MEMBERS! Yeah we have a long way to go. Enemy elements are inside our OODA Loop on that one!

Salaam again.

Interesting site! Ahead of curve!

I salute you.

Salaam eleikum Sir!

Thanks for the list!

Salaam!

This war can not be won with B-52’s and Trident submarines. They only provide a threat, “big stick”, if you will.

Marzouq, Lover of Love, Hater of Hate, Seeker of Truth, out!

Oh yeah, Salaam eleikum!

You are a delusional nutjob.

Very good post!

Fred,

You are only fantisizing and you are wrong.

Folks,

As I have said on this blog several times in the past, THERE IS A WAR WITHIN ISLAM. This war is similar to the wars between the European Christians during the Dark and Middle Ages.

As I have said on this blog several times in the past, THERE IS A RENAISSANCE GOING ON. During the Renaissance of the Middle Ages there was war and economic turmoil. This Renaissance is enabled by the internet, like the printing press enabled the Renaissance of yore.

Historians have said St Francis of Assisi was one who stimulated the Renaissance of yore. I guess Bill Gates stimulated this one, heh heh.

Wretchard,

Good post and very good food for thought. I think the proposed department is well named but a more appropriate name for those who study the theory/concept of 4GW (4th Generation Warfare, war faught with means other than military).

Folks,

As a former Christian who answered the Call of Islam, I believe Muslims should seek higher understanding of the great prophet Jesus Son of Mary (PBUH).

There has to be a greater understanding by all believers of our Creator and the promise of life after death that all Hebrew, Christian, Muslim and other prophets (PHUT) lived under differing circumstances/cultures and had different issues to deal with. Heck, study any culture and you see a common thread, a BELIEF in a higher power or creator. Another common thread is how the leadership of the believers can be judged by their works because of the power and control they acquired.

Salaam eleikum to all Y’all!

That is not to say that Jihadism cannot be propogandized against. Rather than focus on its theological roots, would it not make more sense for the West to broadcast its real life failures. The Surge dried up the Jihadi element of the war in Iraq partially, according to Wretchard if memory serves, because we became so good at killing the Jihadi’s. It is all well and good to go die in a glorious battle but even nut jobs will think twice about joining up for the war if it brings no chance of success and a certainty of death. We won not by killing all the Jihadi’s but rather by discrediting the cause.

Could not the same logic be applied to undermining the results of Jihad where it is tried? Gaza, Iran, the tribal regions, all huge failures by all metrics but ideological purity. Those maddrassas in Pakistan are not exactly training people to be self sufficient. If we could show that whatever the ideological roots of the movements are the institutions practicing it fail, it reduces the appeal of the ideology. The fall of the Soviet Union was aided in part because at some point even the Communists had to admit it did not work.

The message would not be “Join the West” or “Our Islam is better than your Islam”. Rather it would be “Jihad kills not only the Infidel but your Tribe.” The West is far more likely to be capable of this kind of propaganda than to attack the ideological underpinning of Jihad.