The next President’s task in war on terror

By H. D. S. Greenway | Tuesday, November 4, 2008 | The Boston Globe

“…To bring about real change in the world, the new president will have to rethink and reorganize the entire concept of preventive war and the so-called war on terror.

As the author Thomas Powers wrote recently, what ‘no country can do for long [is] force strange people in distant places to reshape their politics and society more to our liking. The effort passes as nation-building at the outset, but in the long run counterinsurgency always comes down to the same self-defeating strategy – killing locals until they stop trying to make us go away.’….”…BS

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/11/04/the_next_presidents_task_in_war_on_terror?mode=PF

 

 

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