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The Sultan Knish wrote a good article explaining the four main reasons the West continues to lose. It is not only interesting reading, it is insightful. He shows us what needs to be changed, or what barriers we will have to overcome in order to win. One of the four reasons is that diplomacy has become more important in the Western mind than war. As he explains:
- Don't Drink The Taqiyya
Here is a brilliant comment left by a person calling his or herself, Don't Drink The Taqiyya: "The Cool War is one where an enemy works to undermine the will of the enemy with intimidation, infiltration and disinformation means. It’s the war being...
- Civilization And Its Enemies
Recently I read Civilization and its Enemies, by Lee Harris. It is compulsory reading for anyone in the Alliance! Since the very beginning Harris says "Civilized people forget that in order to produce a civilization there must be what the German sociologist...
- Storm Track Disinformation: Liberals Getting It Right – But Still Getting It Wrong
From The Gathering Storm Poor deluded liberals. They will do anything to advance the position that we’re not at war. They see this struggle between the ideology of freedom and the ideology of tyranny as a simple criminal justice problem. But at least...
- Infidel Question Of The Day
Yesterday, I heard Glenn Reynolds on the Hugh Hewitt Show, and he uttered one of those lines that sounds so provocative and intelligent that, when you first hear it, you find yourself instantly agreeing, before you've even analyzed its relative truth....
- Asymmetry
We often hear the war against the Enemy described as asymmetrical warfare. By this we usually mean that jihadists do not have the capability to fight what we consider a conventional battle. But there is another way of looking at symmetry. The jihadists...
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Why Does The West Repeatedly Lose Against An Enemy It Could Easily Destroy?
The Sultan Knish wrote a good article explaining the four main reasons the West continues to lose. It is not only interesting reading, it is insightful. He shows us what needs to be changed, or what barriers we will have to overcome in order to win. One of the four reasons is that diplomacy has become more important in the Western mind than war. As he explains:War then becomes a halfhearted effort to hurt the enemy just enough to convince them to give in to our peacemaking demands. Unfortunately when the enemy has no interest in giving in, the military campaign quickly becomes a painful bloody drawn out mess with no real objective except buzzwords such as "Stabilization" and "Reining in the Extremist Elements Who Stand in the Way of Peace."Read the whole article: Playing To Win.
The latest example of such a misguided military campaign could be seen in Gaza, but it can just as well be seen in Iraq, and for that matter Vietnam. If you're not playing to win, but assuming that the enemy will give up and come to the negotiating table, then you're playing to lose... particularly against an enemy who knows how the game is played, and knows that all he needs to do is stay alive long enough for you to give up and go away.
- Don't Drink The Taqiyya
Here is a brilliant comment left by a person calling his or herself, Don't Drink The Taqiyya: "The Cool War is one where an enemy works to undermine the will of the enemy with intimidation, infiltration and disinformation means. It’s the war being...
- Civilization And Its Enemies
Recently I read Civilization and its Enemies, by Lee Harris. It is compulsory reading for anyone in the Alliance! Since the very beginning Harris says "Civilized people forget that in order to produce a civilization there must be what the German sociologist...
- Storm Track Disinformation: Liberals Getting It Right – But Still Getting It Wrong
From The Gathering Storm Poor deluded liberals. They will do anything to advance the position that we’re not at war. They see this struggle between the ideology of freedom and the ideology of tyranny as a simple criminal justice problem. But at least...
- Infidel Question Of The Day
Yesterday, I heard Glenn Reynolds on the Hugh Hewitt Show, and he uttered one of those lines that sounds so provocative and intelligent that, when you first hear it, you find yourself instantly agreeing, before you've even analyzed its relative truth....
- Asymmetry
We often hear the war against the Enemy described as asymmetrical warfare. By this we usually mean that jihadists do not have the capability to fight what we consider a conventional battle. But there is another way of looking at symmetry. The jihadists...