"The madness reaches new heights" - Washington digs in for a 'long war' as Rumsfeld issues global call to arms
The Bush administration's re-characterisation of its "global war on terror" as the "long war" will be seen by critics as an admission that the US has started something it cannot finish. But from the Pentagon's perspective, the change reflects a significant upgrading of the "generational" threat posed by worldwide Islamist militancy which it believes to have been seriously underestimated.Addressing the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London yesterday, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of US central command covering the Middle East, said winning the "long war" would necessitate increased "security assistance, intelligence-sharing and advice" for allies. "Regional nations must participate and lead the fight," he said. A revived, enlarged international coalition would enable the US to "re-posture" its Middle East ground forces once stability in Iraq and Afghanistan was achieved, he said. Ground forces that remained would be quickly deployable elsewhere; and their area of operations would grow to include old and new theatres in south-east Asia and east and north Africa. Just as important, Gen Kimmitt said, was enhancement of the coalition's ability to forge long-term diplomatic and law enforcement networks to counter the "astonishing" use by al-Qaida and its allies of "physical and virtual domains" such as the internet. Months ago, after the cartoons initial appearance in Denmark and response of Muslims, the Danish cartoons seemed a minor religious tiff. In the intervening period since, however, NATO has been called upon to expand its activities in Afghanistan as part of enabling the US to move 4,000 troops from Afghan duty to the Iraq front, and the Iranian nuclear talks came to a standstill. So, four months after the cartoons were published an attempt got under way, in the name of "freedom of the press" to reprint and spread the cartoons far more widely throughout Europe. Obviously the provocative cartoons provoked European Muslims' rage in such a manner that they can now be regarded as isolated from the rest of the societies where they are living and working.
Note: EU-Digest: for some reason the ongoing "cartoon war" and the recent Rumsfeld "clash of civilizations doomsday speech" to Congress is starting to come across like an orchestrated scenario - Yes "Something is rotten in Denmark".
What is being organized via Danish and other European media, seems nothing less than a devious plan to manipulate public opinion and to condition the skeptical anti-war European population that any war against "the dark evil (Muslim) terrorist forces" is justified.
Prior to the invasion of Iraq the lies as to the reason's for attacking Iraq seemed for more easy to expose. This time it looks like the sophistication of the process to deceive public opinion would even make Joseph Goebbels and his Nazi propaganda team look like a bunch of amateurs. All of us in Europe, including every European Muslim should better sit up and take notice. Together we must stop this madness.
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