I recently wrote one of those truisms you can only get away with in a children’s book, that to win a war it isn’t necessary to win every battle, just to win the last one. I was reminded of this thinking about the situation of the ever widening reach of the enemies of western thinking, and recalling Mao Tze Tung when asked how he would feel if half of the Chinese people were lost in war. He replied, and not wholly ingenuously, that that would leave the other half victorious.
Al Qaeda don’t are about the last ten years, they don’t care about the next ten years. They know the sons they have will leave sons, and so on down the generations and they want to be ready when thee western world fails, as it will in time whether through civil war or environmental disaster. They have years to squander because they look to a distant future.
If we fail to look as far we will lose the last battle. We will lose because we find longevity of struggle difficult and unsavoury, and we would rather be hedonistic in our attitudes to life. We will lose because we think we are fighting modern men, but the only thing modern about these men are their weapons.
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