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Date:	23 Aug 2003 12:00:53 AM
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James Woolsey made a speech at UCLA on April 2, 2003 claiming that we
are now in WW4 -- and that the "Cold War" was actually WW3....
While I don't agree with this particular viewpoint, it is interesting
to note what Thomas L. Friedman said shortly after the horrific events
of 911....
World War III has just begun
By Thomas L. Friedman,
New York Times
Does America really understand that this is World War III?
If Tuesday's unspeakable terrorist attack was the Pearl
Harbour of World War III, it means there is a long, long war
ahead.
This Third World War does not pit us against another
superpower. It pits us - the quintessential symbol of
liberal, free-market, Western values - against all the
super-empowered angry men and women out there.
Many of these people hail from failing states in the Muslim
and Third World. They do not share our values; they resent
America's influence, our support for Israel, and they often
blame America for the failure of their societies to master
modernity. What makes them super-empowered, though, is their
genius at using the very technology they hate to attack us.
Think about it. They turned our most advanced civilian
planes into precision-guided cruise missiles - a diabolical
melding of their fanaticism and our technology. Jihad
Online. And think of what they hit: the World Trade Centre -
the beacon of American-led capitalism that both tempts and
repels them - and the Pentagon, the embodiment of American
military superiority.
So what is required to fight a war against such people in
such a world? To start with, we as Americans will never be
able to penetrate such small groups who live in such remote
places. The only people who can penetrate these shadowy and
ever-mutating groups - and deter them - are their own
societies. And even they can't do it consistently.
So then the question becomes: "What does it take for us to
get the societies that host terrorist groups to truly act
against them?"
First, we have to prove that we are serious, and that we
understand that many of these terrorists hate our existence,
not just our policies. The people who planned Tuesday's
bombings combined world-class evil with world-class genius
to devastating effect. And unless we are ready to put our
best minds to work combating them in an equally daring and
unremitting fashion, we're in trouble.
Second, we have to make things clear to our Middle East
allies. If their countries want US embassies, then they
cannot play host to terrorist groups.
Does that mean the US must ignore Palestinian concerns and
Muslim economic grievances? No. We cannot forget that for
many we are their ray of hope. We need to have a serious and
respectful dialogue with the Muslim world about why many of
its people are falling behind.
But why is such self-criticism not tolerated today by any
Arab leader? Where are the Muslim leaders who will tell
their sons to resist the Israelis - but not to kill
themselves or innocent non-combatants? Life is sacred.
Surely Islam, a grand religion that never perpetrated the
sort of Holocaust against the Jews in its midst that Europe
did, is being distorted when it is treated as a guidebook
for suicide bombing. How is it that not a single Muslim
leader will say that?
These are some of the issues we will have to address as we
fight World War III. It will be a long war against a
brilliant and motivated foe. We have to fight in a way that
is effective without destroying the very open society we are
trying to protect. We have to fight as if there were no
rules and preserve our open society as if there were no
terrorists.
It won't be easy. It will require our best strategists, our
most creative diplomats and our bravest soldiers.
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