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January 3, 2007

Anti-Qaeda: The Right Way To Fight Al-Qaeda

Topics: War on Terror

What's the best way to fight a stateless war? A hint of a suggestion for a damned good start comes from Josh Manchester in the form of a question:

... If the West might be defined in part as a civil society built upon layers and layers of law and tradition, what does it mean if it is necessary to circumvent those laws or traditions in order to defend itself?

As Manchester points out in his piece, one of Al Qaeda's organizing principles is an absolute indifference to international law.

... international law is reorganized to deter such groups as Al Qaeda, ... it is likely that those groups will simply reorganize themselves to continue to flout international law. Being much more nimble than the states which spend years crafting treaties and conventions, Al Qaeda has the freedom to do so quite easily.

... Al Qaeda is organized such that it can operate anywhere in the world if given the opportunity. Of course, its operatives have to be careful to avoid government efforts to find them, but Al Qaeda itself has no rules of its own that prevent it from crossing boundaries, whether they are geographic, administrative, bureaucratic, or even moral. In many ways then, Al Qaeda is like a virus, free to propagate wherever a suitable environment may be found, whether it be Waziristan, Somalia, southern Thailand, or the housing projects in the outskirts of London. Not only does it seek physical spaces, but it also seeks amenable minds to bend to its will. It is an opportunistic and ruthless virus.

So, what's the best way to destroy this "opportunistic and ruthless virus"? Why not create a similar organization that serves as an antibody. In other words - an "Anti-Qaeda" force.

hat tip - Guido

Posted by Richard at January 3, 2007 10:24 PM

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