FINEL: Victory over jihadists

Finel may well be right that the Pakistan-Afghanistan model for Jihadism is a more genuine threat than Iraq ever was, but he comes late to this perception. It's interesting that the world of punditry seems to gravitate to whatever locale is on America's front burner as "the real threat." Where have these gurus been hiding? Fact is, Jihadism in Pakistan was and remains indigenous and parallel to the Jihadism of Al-Qaeda, and both are parallel to any Shi'a Jihadism. Finel is tardily belaboring his point.

As the West tries to circumvent the shifting sands of the Saudia Arabian hold on the House of Mecca it might behoove we who care about the future of America and Israel to aquire some perspective that might advance our understanding in confronting the basis on which we are being judged by radical Islam and the west's blind reaction to it. Those who have never even opened a Qu'ran or even studied the culture which produced the Taliban and other regressive movements in the tribal patchwork which makes up the fabric of what is now a torn garment of the body politic in the theocratic and autocratic rulership of Sunni and Shia belief systems should perhaps take a look at some writer's whose prophetic understanding might cast some light on our friend; Osama bin Laden; the Global Terrorist: St. Paul of Tarsus. If one reads Thessalonians II 2: 3-4 one will get what I call a "shock" of recognition. Here is the quote in full after St. Paul discusses the day of Christ to come; "Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sits as God in the House of God, showing himself that he is God." The heaviest authority of the one-eyed or "evil one' Muhammed saw in his vision of the Ad-Dajjal that Gabriel showed him is in this hadith that Muhammed described one characteristic by which the "Ad-Dajjal" would be known: he would offer men "Jannat" or "Heaven"; but really deliver them into "Jahannah/ "Gehenna: the dung heap". This sounds very much like Osama bin Laden's offers of virgins to those who die for him as the payment of the holy warrior as of the 7th heaven. But the hadith or "saying" of Muhammed further states that the Ad-Dajjal or Antichrist will try to put his enemies in the camp of "Satan" or even "Satan the Devil" as of "Jahannah": but they are actually the "peacemakers" that Lord Jesus said would be called "the children of the Most High". It is these who Muhammed said would be called "his people: the People of Salvation". Thus they are all; Jew. Christian or Muslim who die for peace: but they will not kill for it. Fire from God out of Heaven is not far off!

How easy it is to comment, once a battle is over, that the outcome was never in doubt and the results trivial. I would be more impressed if Mr Finel had been writing this two or three years ago. Of course different countries and circumstances require different strategies, but to equate the violence in Afghanistan with Somalia is not very nuanced. Mr Finel seems to have lost sight of the US strategic objective. It is not to make every country as safe (?) as the streets of Chicago. It is to reduce the support for, and success of, international terrorism, especially international Islamic terrorism. In that cause, Iraq is of vastly more strategic importance than Afghanistan or Somalia, as are even Indonesia and the Philippines. The weakness of international terrorism is that it is a one-trick pony. It seeks to induce capitulation by use and threat of indiscriminate violence. In every case but one since 9/10/01, terror bombing has hardened the resolve of the government against the terrorists. This is true even in Islamic countries like Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Even the Spanish exception seems more a case of the government trying to misdirect blame rather than calling for solidarity against the new threat. By example, we have demonstrated that international terrorism does not work. The "indigenous" politics of Afghanistan and Somolia are of much less strategic significance.

I you sugggest that US must focus on the training camp of terrorist in pakistan. Secondly US must vigil of ammunition used by terrorist . Who are sponsoring this Terrorists. thirdly US must corner all terrorist in one side of pakistan northwest state to put more aggressive attack on terrorist. Without the spliting of pakistan tribal in northwest province this hide and run work will not resolve. Join muslim militant organisation in Peshawar and waziristan to find the link of militants. May be militant in PAKISTAN occupied Kashmir boundaries. Split the grassroot in the peshawar for intelligence. find logistic support of pakistan govt. to extremist. surely baby will cry for milk. focus on the educated lobby of peshawar.