Friday, January 27, 2006

 

A New War Front?

So the Palestinians went and elected a terrorist organization as thier government. The best breakdown I hace seen was at Best of the Web Today. We now have a "nation" with a government the stated policy of which is to destroy another nation and race. That targeted nation is one of our staunchest allies. Does this put us at war with Palestine? Possibly. But as Taranto says:
The Nazi analogy actually is apt, but only up to a point. Hamas, like the Nazis, does in fact have an exterminationist agenda. But because Israel is so much mightier than the Palestinian Arab nonstate, this agenda has no realistic prospect of being carried out.
Fair enough, but what does this mean for terrorism? Now acts of terror could come as official acts of a military. Hugh Hewitt, in his interview with Karl Rove yesterday said that he thinks this makes an Israeli/Palestinian war inevitable.

Agreed, a "state" of war is inevitable, but war as traditionally understood - I think not. I think we will see terrorism on whole new level. I wonder if this won't make us completely redefine some of our understanding of war and how to fight it. This may be the event that proves the absolute wisdom of Rumsfeld's reinvention of our military.

How do you fight a war between nations without fronts? How do you defeat an enemy that never maneuvers, or entrenches? Fortunately we, and doubtlessly the Israelis, have had some very smart people asking, and trying to answer just those questions.

One thing's for sure -- it'll be interesting.

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