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Practical and Apocalyptic Terrorism

Posted by David Foster on June 18th, 2007 (All posts by David Foster)

I was going to post a link to this important Ralph Peters essay in a comment to Ginny’s post, immediately below, but the spam filter had other ideas. So here it is:

When Devils Walk The Earth

 

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2 Responses to “Practical and Apocalyptic Terrorism”

  1. Lex Says:
    June 19th, 2007 at 8:05 am

    Good Peters piece. His usual over-the-top prose style. but the main points he makes are good ones. Models derived from dealing with political or practical terrorists are irrelevant when dealing with apocalyptic terrorists — who have to be killed. There is no political solution which can appease them.

  2. Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Selected 2007 Posts, Part 2 Says:
    January 6th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    [...] Practical and Apocalyptic Terrorism. The astute soldier-writer Ralph Peters describes the difference in his chilling article When Devils Walk the Earth. [...]

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