Oh shit
In a well-written article, Michael Ledeen, writing in the Telegraph writes:
The terror masters are wounded and frightened, but they are still on the battlefield and they are determined to prevail. They understand, correctly in my opinion, that it is all a matter of will. We have more than enough power to prevail, but we have yet to demonstrate the resolve to impose victory on our enemies.
This frightens the living crap out of me. Partially, because of the war being "asymmetrical" it speaks of a long-drawn out affair, Ulster-style and partially because I have no great faith in the will of our domestic populations. It's all eerily similar to a line in Alan Clark's Barbarossa where the Germans (who had been told that the war was all about will) discovered that the Russians had stacks of it. And we all know who won that one.
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