Breaking the stalemate
We are fighting the war on terrorism blindfolded? We and allies have been using the most lethal weapons ever invented to fight the unknown enemies who live in caves. It has been more than 3 years and 500 billion dollars and our enemies are still stunning us with road side bombs and propaganda tapes. It only shows that no army or weapon could defeat the ideas generated by the fanatics like Osama Bin Laden, Adolph Hitler or great idealists like Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King. We need to break the stalemate by talking, seeking, negotiating, giving and accommodating ideas from all including our enemies. Some of the ideas are:
Negotiate and seek a middle ground with those who are fighting us. It will draw many out of the caves and put a face on those who are fighting us. History is full of people who were transformed from terrorists to heroes. In 1930 Winston Churchill called Gandhi “a seditious middle temple lawyer posing as a fakir”.
The war on terrorism will not be won by cruise missiles, bombing bustling cities into medieval ages or those leaders who think that democracy is born out of the barrel of a gun. It will be won by translation of episodes of Seinfeld, Friends and Who Loves Raymond into Arabic. It will be won by building movie studios, car factories and those who are willing to share wealth to make it. It will be won by those listen, give and take and seek a consensus of minds. War has always begotten more war.
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