There is reason to be optimistic about the
war on terror if my three observations are accurate. The war has been
in decline for some time and will be over in less than a decade even if
the second wave of electoral cowardice arrives in America (the first
was the anti-Vietnam war Democrats elected in 1972).
* First the war of terrorism against the Industrial-world is run by tribal groups.
* Second, those tribes have one main weapon, the sacrifice of their mentally retarded and defective teenagers as suicide murderers. This tactic is being controlled by good border screening technology and having a magnet war, such as Iraq, that drains off the defective murderers.
* Third, the money the terrorists need comes from oil producing states. As the oil producing states see the price of oil drop as oil using nations rapidly move to non-oil sources of energy, they will understand the futility of harming themselves by continuing their terrorist support. Simple equation: continued support of terrorists by oil nations means more rapid abandonment of oil by Industrial nations.
