No fair fight

ARTICLE: Mapping the electronic jihad, By Rebecca Givner-Forbes and Clay Shwery, RSIS, April 25th, 2007

This is Olivier Roy's point about jihad fighting fire with fire: they globalize the movement to fight globalization.

Yes, in the short term it advantages their asymmetrical warfare approach. But here is where they lose: unable to disable globalization (forget the West and America, the Asians will simply not allow it), they increasingly lure the boy out of the country into the big bad world, and you know what?

That's an irreversible process that kills jihad over time.

So, no, they never did have a chance. The only questions remaining are time and pain.

Watch the brilliant "Ashes and Diamonds" (Poland's greatest film) and you'll know what I mean.

And yes, it won't be a fair fight. It was never going to be.

Thanks to Craig Nordin.