weeklystandard/articles/we-don-t-have-strategy-yet_803977.html# Here’s the problem: Cancer is a disease. The Islamic State is an enemy. There’s a difference. Cancer develops, as it were, naturally. We counter it as best we can through human art and invention. Medicine or surgery sometimes succeeds in checking the disease and even freeing the body of it. But a terrorist movement does not develop naturally. The Islamic State was brought into existence by certain human beings acting according to a certain intention, an evil and destructive intention to be sure, but an intention nonetheless. To counter the Islamic State—to defeat it—we need to grasp and frustrate and overcome our enemies’ intention. Treating cancer is a task for surgery. Fighting the Islamic State is a task for strategy.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 13:17:57 +0000
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