Sunday, December 7, 2008

The Lessons of Mumbay


"The first lesson of the attacks has already been misunderstood: this is not a criminal justice issue; it is war. This is not a new issue, but the lesson has yet to be learned......

"The attackers used a hybrid method of both guerrilla and terrorist tactics....

"The Mumbay attacks provide us with a glimpse of the terrorist vision of the future. For those who believed that terrorism was a means of improving a negotiating position ....., Mumbay should help them realize that this conflict is neither limited nor over peripheral issues. It is looking more and more like total war with each attack."

Short and succinct, the author's clarity of analysis can be appreciated more completely with a read of the art6icle HERE.

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