Who Said It?
By Callimachus | Related entries in NewsHe calls the West’s war against Islamist terror the “Long War.” He says it could take centuries to win, and he compares it to the Reformation. The principal weapons will be words and ideas.
The Long War is 90% intellectual, communications, political, economic, diplomacy, and intelligence focused. It is at most 10% military. We have not yet developed the doctrine or structure capable of thinking through and implementing a Long War (30 to 70 years if we are lucky) on a societal scale. This challenge is compounded because it is fundamentally different from waging the Cold War against the Soviet Union. The Cold War was essentially a grand siege in which a defensive alliance could contain the Soviet Union until it collapsed.
What liberal idea-meister said this? Why, it’s that ol’ debbil Bre’er Newt Gingrich! [Whose district was down in J.C. Harris country.]
Belmont Club has, more and a helpful accompanying commentary. Since I traditionally take little interest in pure politics (something I’ve realized since starting to post here in this political hothouse), it’s possible for me to read Newt and not get caught up in whose side I was on in 1994. He’s a guy who wakes up and has six new ideas a day, four of which are BS, but the other two are worth noticing. The trick is figuring out if this is one of the two.
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