Great article Tesco. Following its links I came to
this other article which pretty much sums up my views on Iraq, the US and the world.
A few excerpts which I would agree with :
"Television news may become a more powerful operational weapon than armored divisions."
"Ideally, the enemy's military is simply irrelevant to the terrorist."
"Terrorists use a free society's freedom and openness, its greatest strengths, against it. They can move freely within our society while actively working to subvert it. They use our democratic rights not only to penetrate but also to defend themselves. If we treat them within our laws, they gain many protections; if we simply shoot them down, the television news can easily make them appear to be the victims. Terrorists can effectively wage their form of warfare while being protected by the society they are attacking. If we are forced to set aside our own system of legal protections to deal with terrorists, the terrorists win another sort of victory."
"hostile forces could easily take advantage of a significant product of television reporting — the fact that on television the enemy's casualties can be almost as devastating on the home front as are friendly casualties."
This is why I believe that the current methods for fighting terrorism may not work; although I do not claim to have the answers. No one does.