Rethinking the "War on Terror"
David Miliband, British Foreign Secretary | January 16, 2009
The 9/11 attacks created global solidarity in the fight against a common enemy: terrorism. ++ The response was found in the "war on terror" and sometimes justifies resort to force for the rightness of the cause. ++ However, "the issue is not whether we need to attack the use of terror at its roots, with all the tools available. We must. The question is how". ++ A military response, as the Iraqi case highlights, does not seem to be the right one; rather, "the best antidote to the terrorist threat in the long term is cooperation."
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Facts: It is a democracy that has a healthy population. It is signatory to many International Agreements, including the Universal Charter of Human Rights. It has institutional organs that become mandatory after such International Obligations. It also is a member of the United Nations Organization. It regularly contributes to the UN Peace Keeping Operations and not every Indian blue Helmet delegation is accused of rape and other crimes, when on deputation. It also has missiles that can be armed with nuclear arm-heads and can easily reach the south-western regions of China.
Facts: It has a society that can be best described as pre-industrial (this includes the largest swathes of its population, including its mongoloids as well as austroloid groups of aborigine population that also form the site for religious conversions and the businesses as well as conflicts that accrue from such sites). It also has a sizeable middle-class that can be best described as a transiting society - from the pre-industrial to the industrializing, with the various degrees of the transition spectrum. It has a miniscule industrial-post-industrial population whose names can be contained in a 5X8 double spaced, font size 14, booklet of twenty pages.
Facts: It is also a society in conflict on largely caste and ethno-lingual as well as religious lines with socializations of anatgonisms. It has its pre-idustrial segments attempting a truth-experiment that is a guise to stifle and eliminate the industrial-end of the transitional society as well as its industrial-post-industrial miniscule segments. The socializations into crime-prostitution-terror network are aptly captured into 'breaking-the-law' juvenile delinquency that can be visible at its many sections of wanna-be US flower-children generation and their presences at its educational institutions of higher learnings. The site for religious confrontations and those who form it - no matter how much it hurts their sponsors - make for an interesting situation. Political elites who encourage such a situation, including its Truth-Experiments, make for an interesting reading. Mr. Miliband is correct about co-operation. The question is between who?