Significantly, our fight against al-Qa’ida and Islamist terrorism is not over. Despite the Australian government’s new woke language guide to Islamist extremism, al-Qa’ida’s military training manual is explicit in describing the lengths this movement is prepared to go. The manual states: “The confrontation we are calling for with these apostate regimes does not know Socratic debates, Platonic ideals nor Aristotelian diplomacy. But it knows the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing and destruction and the diplomacy of the cannon and machinegun.”
Its authors are unequivocal and sadly historically accurate, when they explain, “
Islamic governments have never and will never be established through peaceful solutions and co-operative councils. They are established, as they always have been, by pen and gun, by word and bullet, by tongue and teeth.” This mindset will not be defeated or outmanoeuvred by earnest think tanks in Washington or Brussels. These extremists regard themselves as the vanguard of the Islamic revolution. It is a fight beyond time and geography.
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It was a fanciful mistake attempting nation-building in Afghanistan. Destroying terrorist training camps and hunting al-Qa’ida, yes. Building a nation to achieve the same ends, no. Unless we were planning to stay forever.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/allies-botched-their-one-job-in-afgh...
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