Saturday, March 15, 2008

100 Years War?

100 Years War?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/
from_our_own_correspondent/7297

I have long believed that in regard to Islamic fundamentalist terrorist War that the world is in for 100 years or more of this. The above article at the above web address
speaks to this.

The problem is mainly 11th and 12th century thinking that is still prevalent in much of the Islamic world clashing with the Secular Christian, Secular Islamic and non-believing in anything world.

It reminds me a lot of when civilization overtook the Yanomamo Indians except this time there are millions of people who still think like its 1200 AD. This kind of entrenchment has been like this for over 1000 years. It is not likely to change anytime soon. To them we are the invaders from another planet. They don't want any of our ideas. If the world weren't as small as it presently is because of swift air travel and multinational corporations it might not even be a problem. But it is and under the circumstances it can only get worse over time.

I think I worry the most about the increasing HI-Tech way Islamic terrorists function. I'm concerned that 20 or 30 years from now there will be flying terrorist drones armed with missiles or small nuclear weapons or nuclear bombs strapped on board. There is the insidious way that weapons tend to proliferate through illegal weapons traders and through the illegal underbelly of a free internet. I really don't see any real way to stop this problem except through a mandated form of worldwide education. I don't really like this idea but I can see it may be the only way to prevent extinction of whole nations as well as the earth itself. This particular terrorist war could extinct the human race as the types of weapons used become more and more sophisticated.

I'd like to quote from the above url article:Begin quote:
At one point, delegates trooped off to see that classic Sixties film The Battle of Algiers - the moral of which is that a Western country, however powerful (and even one that is ready to resort to torture) will fail to crush an insurgency if it faces determined popular resistance.endquote

This is not a war that either side can win. It is a war that either will end through attrition or with the extinction of all life on earth. So a new way of thinking about it must arise.

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