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| The World Has Changed, But Our Mindset Has Not by Jeremy at 2:17 pm EDT, May 22, 2004 | |||
The end of the Cold War fundamentally changed the security environment, which changed further on 9/11 and yet again as a consequence of the war in Iraq. We have yet to digest the full impact of these changes, seeing them as temporary tactical deviations, exotic interludes. We have barely begun to reexamine our obsolete assumptions about the way our enemies organize and operate. We wage a "global war on terror" -- a confusing conflation of threats -- while we continue to concentrate on future conventional wars with hypothetical, nation-state foes. We ignore the vital role of the drug traffic in central Asia as we single-mindedly pursue terrorists. It is time for us to take a deliberately unconventional, broad, and inclusive approach. My intention is not to argue for one threat over another. No single scenario predominates. That is the point. | |||
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