30 ordspråk av Bruce Hoffman
Bruce Hoffman
It's like Sun Tzu, the Chinese strategist, said years ago. Only if you know your enemy can you win the battle.
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One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed.
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So, in other words, all the lessons that they're learning on how to attack the United States are being communicated and shared not only throughout Iraq but with insurgents and terrorists throughout the world.
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terrorists can still accomplish their basic aims of fear and intimidation just as well by using entirely conventional weapons -- the gun and the bomb.
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That's the attraction of these targets. Everybody has to use them to get to work on a daily basis, even in Israel,
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That's the insurgent strategy, this pervasive insecurity. You can't fight against an unseen enemy.
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Their assistance has been genuine, if motivated in large measure by self-preservation. You have to give Kadafi credit for recognizing the existential threat posed to his rule and revolution by [Osama] bin Laden and Al Qaeda.
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There's absolutely no doubt that executing him would turn him into a martyr.
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These kidnappings represent a significant gap in the country's security and undermine public confidence in the ability of both Iraqi government and coalition forces to maintain order and protect Iraqi citizens from violence - whether insurgent or criminal.
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They are the terrorists' trump card -- and our Achilles' heel.
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We may actually have 24 or 25 guys when it's all said and done,
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We may be setting up new TV and radio stations, and that's fine, but ... they're getting their information from the Internet.
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We still have difficulty imagining women as killers rather than as mothers,
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We're seeing the automated battlefield, but we're not the ones who are in technological control. The enemy is. They're killing us with remote-detonated IEDs. It's like they're fighting a war by technological proxy. But that's what we're supposed to be doing.
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With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.
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