Dream warriors: Our enemies fight for fantasies, not freedom

Armed Forces Journal by Ralph Peters | Jun. 28, 2007 (Opinion)

Until we are willing to confront the mentality -- the soul -- of our enemies honestly, we can't and won't defeat them.
We seek a logical understanding of mass violence, but war and civil strife rarely explode because of rational grievances. Complaints about oppression, poverty or injustice may serve as superficial catalysts, but few wars can be traced to objective decision-making by the dispassionate leaders of cool-headed populations. War is an ... Full Story »

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 by Terry Hinshaw - Jun. 28, 2007

The concluding paragraph of this very long and interesting piece sums it up pretty well: "We need to spend at least as much time asking ourselves what our enemies want as we do telling them what we think they should want. Unless we accept the power of the enemy's dreams and deal with those dreams as a motive shaping reality, we'll get it every bit as wrong as the French did in Algeria."

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