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X-Factor - I hope your "own" opinions are of a higher intellectual caliber than your "Red Cell" agitations. Your current game reads like a page from the Democrat play book. It conveys the impression of a complete failure to understand the adversary's motivations and a lot of wishful thinking about their intentions and probable courses of action. That may be your intent, but it is not to the standards I expect of a discussion intended to inform and/or influence the core members (QPs and SF Candidates) of this board. If you insist on continuing this farce, base your "role playing" on a genuine appreciation/understanding of the enemy. It's what we expect of our analysts.
To this point all of your arguments have ignored the fact that a small group (in any culture), willing to use violence to further their agenda, can control any number of passive onlookers. Every strategy calling for influencing "moderate" Arabs fails to account for this fact or key aspects of Islamist culture (us vs. them). No, I don't believe in a monolithic Islam, at least not internal to the peoples of the ME despite the appearance (to us) of a “unified” Islam fighting the West. The "Are We At War With Islam" thread explores the question/problem in detail.
Nassar's pan-Arab dream died with him - at the hands of Islamist fanatics IIRC. The primary reason it existed in the first place is because Nassar wanted to revive Egypt's status (for his own ends) in regional power politics. Every attempt to revive pan-arabism since his assassination has been for similar reasons and any temporary success has been more a reflection of the "cult of personality" than any true desire on the part of Arabs in general for a trans-tribal/trans-national identity.
Let’s focus the discussion to help soldiers and those who support them to understand the probable implications of emerging national (US) policies and how the enemy can be expected to exploit anything they will perceive as weakness.
Peregrino
ETA: You posted while I was still typing. Somewhat better. Real "Red Cell" work is a lot more involved than parroting somebody else's playbook to incite a knee-jerk reaction.
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