Friday, November 12, 2004

DoD's insurgent strategy

Matt Welch links to a fascinating DoD report on how to repair America's credibility with the Muslim world.

Today we reflexively compare Muslim "masses" to those oppressed under Soviet rule. This is a strategic mistake. There is no yearning-to-be-liberated-by-the-U.S. groundswell among Muslim societies -- except to be liberated perhaps from what they see as apostate tyrannies that the U.S. so determinedly promotes and defends.

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