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ruddlescat · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester

To borrow a famous Basil Fawlty expression I think that man should go on Mastermind

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The bleeding obvious Exclamation

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Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

The guy is a twit. As a former US President would call him a Surrender Monkey & a Useful Idiot

Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

Similar bufoons were advising Churchill that it would be impossible to defeat Hitler. Churchill got rid of them & put real men in their place. Gusse what? we defeated Hitler

ColinB · Guest

Personally, I think he's right. You can't eradicate an ideology with arms. And, of course, you have to find the target - so where, exactly, is this bloke Al Queda? He could be next door, or in the flat over over the chip shop, or even in a mosque in the Lebanon. Not easy when you can't see the target.

Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

I heard this Colonel Blimp on the radio. He was going on about how the last government didn't get it, but this government do. "Oh, yes, Cameron's the chap!" he said Surprised

An ideology CAN be defeated in war. Nazism was thoroughly defeated in WWII. There may be a few tiny groups around today who subscrtibe to the Nazi ideolgy, but essentially the ideology died as any sort of force when the Axis powers were defeated.

The particular Pol Pott brand of Maoism was defeated when pol Pott was ousted from Cambodia (Kampuchea)
There are numerous redundant ideologies which could fill a museum of defeated ideologies.

In Germany in the 1930's just about every other German subscribed to Nazi ideology. Today you would have great difficulty finding a German who does
Once Al Quaida is defeated, the supporters of Islamist ideologies will fade away.

Clive55 · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336

Furthermore, fads like Al Quaida & Islamist militancy burn themselves out- or blow themselves up. You will notice that there have been no suicide bombers blowing up Israeli schools, busses & Pizerria's in the last half decade. This is because paymaster Saddam Hussein is gone. Without the paymaster, all the promises of a thousand virgins will not tempt young men to blow themseves up
Cut off the head & the beast is dead. However many supporters Al Quaida may have (& it is fewer than you think) once the organization & its paymasters are defeated these folloewrs will no more be Al Quaida, just people getting back to real life & pretending their flirtation with fanaticism had never happened