Multiplying the Enemy
By Derrick Z. Jackson | September 27, 2006 | The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/09/27/multiplying_the_enemy/
This Boston Globe piece focuses on the ideas of Robert Hutchings, who was chairman of the National Intelligence Council from 2003 to 2005. In part, Hutchings’ opinion is:
“… the latest news should not disintegrate into a partisan hammering of Bush (“I don’t think the Democrats have covered themselves with glory on Iraq,” he said). What concerns him, he said, is that for the United States to have any chance against terrorism, US leaders have to drop the stark war terminology. “We can’t kill enough people to keep us safe,” Hutchings said. “It’s not a matter of being tough or soft on terrorism. It’s a matter of being smart.” He said a smart policy would be one that delegitimizes jihads by de linking them from legitimate regional economic and political grievances.”
Hutchings’ idea of ‘smart’ summarizes what many of us on the MB-CIVIC blog have been saying for years:
“…`we should not assume that `we’ and `they’ have nothing in common . . . Our frame of mind — even as we are waging a resolute campaign against international terrorism — should be that we are not engaged in a fight to the finish with radical Islam. This is not a clash of civilizations but rather a defense of our shared humanity and a search to find common ground.”
Excellent, succinct, and refreshing…BS
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