The Cold War Meets The Long War

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It is a definite credit to the administration (or more appropriately to the operators) that we have not had another domestic terror incident since 9/11.

The one thing that I don't necessarily agree with establishing a Cold War type posture of deterrence. While that works in the respect of stopping most attacks, the terrorist only have to get it right once. Therefore, the deterrence factor should only be viewed as a stop gap while we eliminate the threat. That means three things: 1)Finding and killing the terrorists and those that support them. 2)Eliminating regimes that sponsor and provide havens for them. 3)Stopping the spread of fundamentalist Islam in the west and elsewhere 4)And lastly changing the hearts and minds of the Muslim street.

If we were to sit back and let deterrence be our only weapon then we would soon find ourselves surrounded and a couple of our cities in flames.