Comments on: Another One Bites The Dust http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/29/deathofadoctrine/ Just another Firedoglake weblog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:56:23 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: joshua.foust http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/29/deathofadoctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-1055 joshua.foust Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:57:49 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/29/deathofadoctrine/#comment-1055 <p>Is this the same Seth Jones who wrote in Foreign Policy that we need to continue our policy of arming, funding, and supporting warlords in Afghanistan, and their corrupt handlers in the government, because we don’t have any easy options? I thought so.</p> <p>Also, while he’s right about not buying into insurgent rhetoric about martyrdom, there is a serious danger in how we go about labeling terrorists. Mountain Runner has written excellently on this.</p> Is this the same Seth Jones who wrote in Foreign Policy that we need to continue our policy of arming, funding, and supporting warlords in Afghanistan, and their corrupt handlers in the government, because we don’t have any easy options? I thought so.

Also, while he’s right about not buying into insurgent rhetoric about martyrdom, there is a serious danger in how we go about labeling terrorists. Mountain Runner has written excellently on this.

]]> By: jfelliott http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/29/deathofadoctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-1054 jfelliott Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:25:59 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/07/29/deathofadoctrine/#comment-1054 <p>I thought “counter-terrorism” was when you did stuff like the Jordanians did to the Palestinians way back when, such as assassinating terrorists’ families in retribution for suicide bombings and the like. Isn’t what RAND is describing “anti-terrorism” activity?</p> I thought “counter-terrorism” was when you did stuff like the Jordanians did to the Palestinians way back when, such as assassinating terrorists’ families in retribution for suicide bombings and the like. Isn’t what RAND is describing “anti-terrorism” activity?

]]>