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January 05, 2009
State actors
Greg Sheridan points out a blindingly obvious fact that proves to be anything but blindingly obvious to any establishment of the West.
We are at war.
When US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in India this week, all the talk was about "non-state actors" and the challenge they throw up to the international system. The assumption was that the Pakistan-based terrorists responsible for the murders of about 175 people in Mumbai, and the injuries to hundreds more, were non-state actors.
Yet it may be that since the 9/11 attacks in New York, the world has completely misconceived the age of terror. The radical increase in the lethality, range, political consequence and strategic influence of terrorists comes not from their being non-state actors at all. Instead it comes from their being sponsored by states.
Yet it may be that since the 9/11 attacks in New York, the world has completely misconceived the age of terror. The radical increase in the lethality, range, political consequence and strategic influence of terrorists comes not from their being non-state actors at all. Instead it comes from their being sponsored by states.
Note to India: You are doing it wrong. Enjoy your next massacre. Would that the Jews of Bombay not have to pay for your blinkers.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 5, 2009 11:35 AM
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