Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Von Clausewitz, War on Terror, Israel as Model and the Cynicism of the Premise

Notwithstanding the Clausewitzian axiom of War being politics expressed, as outlines by the Prussian military theoretician Von Clausewitz.  The calculus practiced during the Bush Administration and continued by the Obama  Administration in it's War on Terror interaction with Al Qaeda, the Taliban and a certain contextual Jihadist perspective, Stands and turns politics on it's head.

Nothing will be gained, nothing is to be gained.  Supporters of this adventurism have cynically suggested that Iraq will be the Israel of the Arab and Islamic world.  Which only goes to show how naive and blinded they are by the suppositions of the Neo-Conservative narrative.

Israel shouldn't be anybody's model.  A nation consistently hounded by the footsteps of the Grim Reaper and undertakers is no ones model and it's premise has nothing to do with the affirmation of life.  A country in the business of building walls erecting barriers while life affirmation requires the destruction of barriers Highlighted as a model only reveals the cynicism of the premise.

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