"(...)The neocons are loud in their denunciations of anyone who argues that an attempt to reduce the popular resentments that inflame Muslim opinion must be an integral part of any successful counter-terrorism campaign. To even suggest it is a "reward for terror" and an act of "appeasement." But the obligatory references to the 1930s and the neocons' obsession with Churchill illustrate how profoundly they have misconceived the nature of the threat.
Those who devised the classic counter-insurgency method during the wars of decolonisation understood the difference between fighting a state and fighting a guerrilla movement. Through experience, these military men realised that an insurgency must be defeated in the political sphere. (...)" David Clark was a special adviser at the UK Foreign Office from 1997 to 2001.
Por falar em obsessão por Churchill (que como todos os homens tinha qualidades e defeitos e diga-se, os tempos eram outros), Thomas DiLorenzo: "When the Iraqis first started revolting against British imperialism in 1923, Winston Churchill recommended that they be dealt with with poison gas. He (and the world) had just seen the horrific consequences of poison gas in World War I, and thought it was just the ticket for the Iraqi population.
My friend Ron Smith, a talk show host on WBAL in Baltimore, mentioned on the air today that in the past day or two William F. Buckley, Jr. invoked Churchill in advocating that the U.S. military gas entire cities where the revolts are currently taking place. This is certainly one reason why the neocons love Churchill so much."
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