[vinnomot] With a grain of piquant salt: To keep on doing the same thing while expecting different results is the definition of insanity!

USA’s counter terrorism effort in the Global War against Terror is frankly creating more terrorists than it is stopping. If the objective was to reduce the number of terrorists, then it has failed, because the number of terrorists and terrorist incidents is indeed increasing. If the objective was to reduce the territory they cover, then that too has not happened. If the objective was to reduce the terrorists’ influence, then the influence has grown. If the idea was to reduce Islamist religiosity, then that too it has increased. Keeping things static is no fun gun. One has to aim at removing, reducing and eradicating these totally. The main reason behind this is that USA sees this problem in purely military terms. That is why it keeps on using military means primarily and then gets surprised at the results that terrorism is not reducing.

 

Continued on at: http://piquancy.blogspot.com/2007/11/to-keep-on-doing-same-thing-while.html

 

 

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Bhaskar Dasgupta

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