How can the war be brought to an end? Neither side can defeat the other. The United States will not be able to overpower a diffuse, ever-mutating, organized international militancy movement, whose struggle enjoys the rear-guard sympathy of large numbers of Muslims. Likewise, Al Qaeda can score tactical victories on the United States and its allies, but it cannot rout the world's sole superpower.
Though dismissed widely, the best strategy for the United States may well be to acknowledge and address the collective reasons in which Al Qaeda anchors its acts of force. Al Qaeda has been true to its word in announcing and implementing its strategy for over a decade. It is likely to be true to its word in the future and cease hostilities against the United States, and indeed bring an end to the war it declared in 1996 and in 1998, in return for some degree of satisfaction regarding its grievances. In 2002, bin Laden declared: ''Whether America escalates or deescalates this conflict, we will reply in kind." [emphasis added.]
Because al-Qaeda has been true to its word in mass murder, we should expect them to be negotiate in good faith? I am a bit surprised he doesn't suggest we open negotiations with an act of goodwill towards AQ - like driving the Israelis into the sea? Mohamedou is either a galactically stupid simpleton or a not-too-bright fifth columnist - in neither case does he belong at Harvard.
Here is perhaps the best response to this nonsense - from commenter Crimso at the ever-vigilant LGF:
We'll never wipe out mosquitoes. They'll never wipe out us. All they ask is that we give them a little of our blood (which, surely, we can spare). Time to start talking about giving the mosquitoes what they want.
Sound idiotic? That's because it is.
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