Peres: America, Russia and India are discovering suddenly they have no strategy for fighting terrorists, or even the right weapons

Shimon Peres, the leading dove -- but also the father of Israel's nuclear weapons program -- makes the inevitable statement. Why haven't any of these nations been successful at defeating terrrorism? Because each is fighting a foe with absolutist objectives, no concept of compromise and driven by a religious, "I'll happily die trying" faith. They are supported by population bases, including brainwashed children, that think the same way. Against such a foe, we must similarly apply an absolutist strategy in order to gain total victory, because "humane warfighting" and partial victories don't end the war, but merely prolong it and the suffering for all. This means, if we wish to win, we must be prepared to "go biblical" against our adversaries, destroying not only their military capabilities but also their civilizations, just as G-d ordered done to Amalek in the Bible. If the enemy hides behind its population base and civilian institutions, which is no less than an extension of their war machine, refueling it when it is degraded, then we must be prepared to utterly destroy that population base and those institutions. This is exactly what the Allies (including/especially the Soviet Union) did as a key strategy in order to shorten WW II, with massive and indiscriminate bombing and murder of the Axis civilians and their institutions. Humane civilized leaders like Roosevelt and Churchill may have been onto something.

This realization is not pretty, but the Islamist enemy is winning in virtually every theater of operation where we confront him, and that merely emboldens him to seek to kill our children. Humane, western liberals can make believe all they want that the Islamists on the other side can be reasoned with, and that dealing with them other than humanely merely creates more enemies. To the latter point the liberals are correct -- unless we utterly destroy the enemy, leaving what is left of their civilization to rethink the correctness of their ways. Islam needs such a defining event to cause its reformation. Otherwise it very well may lead us all to the abyss...