[antimedia] antimedia: Those who suffer the most at the hands of extremists....

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Posted by antimedia:
Those who suffer the most at the hands of extremists....
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   ....have something to say about the policy of appeasement.

     The ideology of the extremists believes in "either victory or
     martyrdom" and now they think they are closer to the former and
     this will be used to attract more of the reluctant to the camp that
     considers itself close to victory and we'll see intensified media
     efforts invested in this field.
     What I want to say here is that now I believe more that I must
     disagree with those who claim that wrong American policy breeds
     extremism, and now I believe more than ever that wrong signals that
     might be interpreted as weakness are what can be exploited by the
     enemy to give more credit to extremism especially under the current
     circumstances.
     To put it simply; saying that a policy that aims at ridding the
     world of regimes and criminals such as Saddam, al-Qaeda,
     Ahmadinejad or Assad is a wrong policy that breeds extremism is
     utterly stupid.
     I personally do not think that America changed its policy from
     victory to exit but I see that it hasn't been good at expressing
     its intentions nor sending the right signals, and when I say right
     I mean clear even to those who have a problem understanding things.
     What the free world needs to do, the US and UK in particular, is to
     make their messages clear and loud so that wrong interpretations by
     extremists do not cost us losses that can be otherwise avoided.
     The message ought to be clear and loud that the change in strategy
     will be to renew and empower the strategy from one of victory to
     one of nothing but victory.
     Here I see steps such as considering adding more troops in Iraq and
     imposing sanctions on Iran to have a positive impact; more
     strategic than tactical though as this will express beyond doubt
     that nothing short of victory would be the goal of the new
     strategy.

   It's amazing to me how people educated at the (supposedly) greatest
   universities in the world continue to believe the same stupid
   falsehoods over and over again. You would think that WWII would have
   taught the world, once and for all, that appeasement does nothing but
   empower the aggressor, but these college educated bozos that run the
   world think they're smarter and more sophisticated and better able to
   handle world problems now than at any time in our history.
   That kind of hubris has always led to disaster, just as it would now.
   So what the hell is the value of a Harvard or Columbia or Yale
   education anyway?