London Attacked

So, one of the terrorist organizations has hit London. A different one hit Madrid not that long ago. There have been lots of terrorist attacks in Israel, India, Malaysia.

Are we winning the war on terror? Can we "win" the war on terror?

The answer is a resounding no.

Terror will always be an instrument of those with nothing left to lose. You cannot defeat terror until noone has nothing left to lose. That means more than "spreading democracy", as democracy and capitalism are systems which give the *chance* to succeed, and the *right* to fail. And when you fail, you lose everything.

I still believe, as I have always believed, that going into Iraq was not the way to "fight" this war. If you want to eradicate the Islamic Fundamentalists (although why stop at Islamic... I'd like to make it all fundamentalists) you need to understand why they feel they have nothing left to lose, and then fix that. It needs to be a religious war: not of Christianity against Muslims, but of moderates of *all* religion against the fundamentalists of *all* religions.

Fundamentalist Jews, who insist on populating the West Bank, and keeping the settlements, or expanding them, are a problem.
Fundamentalist Christians, who insist on denigrating science, evolution, medicine, and as such harm the future of their countries.
Fundamentalist Muslims, who want to wage Jihad against the West for not conforming to the word of Muhammed.

I don't know of problems with fundamentalist Hindus, but I'm sure someone else can enlighten me on that.

Rove may have complained that liberals wanted to understand and offer therapy for the terrorists. Yes, we do, in a way. We want to understand why they want to cause us harm, so that we can stop that. We don't want to go out, guns blazing, and kill all in the way, which we think causes more harm than good.