Fighting Radical Jihad
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I agree with Tony Blankley that extirpating the radical
jihaddists is the only solution. The problem, of course is how.
Jihad has a lot of meanings, including personal
struggle to become more holy. So we have to focus on radical jihaddists
who seek world domination.
The Bush administration wants to fight this most
important war on jihaddists by cutting taxes, reducing the size of the
full time army, cutting investment in education, letting most cargo
containers go untested, cutting support of police and allowing porous
borders.
He did hire Karen Hughes to propagandize the middle
east. That was a sort of a start.
So what should we do?
1. Increase CAFE standards to reduce the need for Arab
oil.
2. Require and subsidize more efficient buildings to
reduce energy consumption.
3. Require more security of chemical and nuclear
plants and chemical transport.
4. Give millions to Arab newpaper editors,
educators and bloggers who support moderates.
5. Put someone, who has a success record, in charge of
getting Iraqi oil flowing. Unlike Bush, if he doesn't show results, fire
the failing executive like Sumner Redstone just fired his head of Viacom,
Tom Freston. Lincoln fired generals until he got a good one -- Grant.
Failure under Bush gets you a medal of freedom.
6. Engage with Syria, which is a secular government.
Maybe we can think of a demilitarized Golan with American observers.
Think of step by step confidence building moves, such as partial
withdrawal for exchange of recognition, more withdrawal in exchange for
breaking of ties to Hezbollah and Hamas, more withdrawal for commercial
relations, more withdrawal for Israeli observers on the Syrian side of the
Lebanese border as commercial consulates.
7. Get tough with the Mullahs in Iran. Find some
trusty informers who can lead us to the nuclear sites and sabotage a few.
Note the neocons found some very untrustworthy informers in the Iraqi
National Congress, including Curve Ball.
No one paid for that but dead and wounded soldiers'
families. The rich got their tax cuts.
8. Enhance the FISA law, still requiring judicial
review. Hire as many judges as needed to avoid delays. Place prisoners
under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and in accordance with the
Geneva Conventions. Demand that the World Court try Bin Laden and
Zawahiri in absentia for war crimes. Let's get some PR here.
9. Ask for Congressional oversight of Iraqi waste and
inefficiency.
10. Require that 15% of government energy use come
from renewables such as wind, wave, solar, ethanol from cellulose and
geothermal.
11. Require that government vehicles be high mpg
hybrids. This includes federal, state and local.
12. Give aid and incentives to Lebanese forces to
drive Hezbollah out of the militia business.
13. Give out thousands of radios to Lebanese that call
Israeli intelligence. Include Swiss bank account numbers and offer
rewards for actionable intel on Hezbollah assets and movements. The US
can provide similar radios to people in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Such radios can broadcast narrow beam signals to satellites.
Clifford Lazar 9/6/06 |