The "old guard" GOP. Why? Because someone forgot to tell all the new guys what conservatism is all about. The so-called NEO Conservatives are, well, some would say a proxy for the Likud party and agenda, plain and simple. Great article on that here.
Anyway, in the Sept 11, 2006 edition of the American Conservative is a VERY interesting article on how the Islamic Way of War is....what?...winning. Important stuff, especially in light of the soon-to-be-launched GOP PR campaign on Nazi/Fascist/Islamo whatever AND the pending invasion of Iran.
Muslims have stopped fighting on Western terms—and have started winning.
by Andrew J. Bacevich
In Iraq, the world’s only superpower finds itself mired in a conflict that it cannot win. History’s mightiest military has been unable to defeat an enemy force of perhaps 20,000 to 30,000 insurgents equipped with post-World War II vintage assault rifles and anti-tank weapons. In Gaza and southern Lebanon, the Middle East’s mightiest military also finds itself locked in combat with adversaries that it cannot defeat. Despite weeks of bitter fighting, the IDF’s Merkava tanks, F-16 fighter-bombers, and missile-launching unmanned aerial vehicles failed to suppress, much less eliminate, the armed resistance of Hamas and Hezbollah. What are we to make of this? How is it that the seemingly weak and primitive are able to frustrate modern armies only recently viewed as all but invincible? What do the parallel tribulations—and embarrassments—of the United States and Israel have to tell us about war and politics in the 21st century? In short, what’s going on here? The answer to that question is dismayingly simple: the sun has set on the age of unquestioned Western military dominance. Bluntly, the East has solved the riddle of the Western Way of War. In Baghdad and in Anbar Province as at various points on Israel’s troubled perimeter, the message is clear: methods that once could be counted on to deliver swift decision no longer work.
