Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:25:36 AM
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky: I usually make my comments after a quote. This time it is an exception. Mr. Juan Zarate, deputy national security advisor for combating terrorism said: "We know the War on Terror -- with its embedded struggle against a violent extremist ideology -- is a generational calling that requires the entire U.S. government and the international community to act." This is a common position of the current Administration. It is a typical view that contradicts both a general theory of modern warfare and goes against the nature of the War on Terror that requires first and foremost an unprecedented ideological and economic cooperation of the U.S. Government with the American people who are currently totally armless in "struggle against a violent extremist ideology".
(Read more...) Without this ideological and economic unity of the Government and the People of the United States there is no victory in battle with Terror, and all wonderful words about winning the War on Terror by Mr. Juan Zarate turn into another bureaucratic "hot air".
Juan Zarate, deputy national security advisor for combating terrorism
Winning the War on Terror:
Marking Success and Confronting Challenges
On April 23, 2008, Juan Zarate, deputy national security advisor for combating terrorism, addressed The Washington Institute's Special Policy Forum. The following is the text of his prepared remarks.
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