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March 29, 2004
Terror & States, a brief comment
One of the items that I have noted in the furor regarding Clarke is the issue of the analysis and blinders re terror organizations.
I think there is something very spot on in the note that the main Bush team has clung to the comfortable state-based assumptions regarding terror organizations. It strikes me as clear that there is indeed - even now - an unexamined presumption rooted in the old Cold War analytical frameworks that so very, very infects them that things do not happen outside of a state framework.
It's a great pity as while clearly state support can be useful, as clearly the Islamic radical organizations have been, on the level of terror, been able to do very well indeed without really substantive state support. Taking out the "Axis of Evil" - in short - is fighting WWI instead of WWII, if you take my meaning.
Posted by The Lounsbury at March 29, 2004 01:50 PM
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