ARTICLE: State Sponsors of Jihadism: Learning the Hard Way, By Kamran Bokhari, Stratfor

Agree with it.

That's why I don't share Robb's pessimism. I find the jihadists self-negating because of their absurd goals. They are true nihilists, and they fit the time (an expansive, frontier-integrating period of globalization), because we last saw them in droves roughly a century ago, including here in America (the escapism of the ghost dancers). I instead see them as a natural and somewhat useful function in the network, much like the Architect views Neo and Zion in the Matrix. They simply have to be.

Thanks to Dan Hare for sending this.